As the Fediverse continues to grow, people are looking to build new experiences that change what’s possible on the network today.

Flohmarkt is a nascent project intended for selling personal items, and may be the first attempt of its kind here.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    A federated ebay\vinted\amazon alternative sounds like a great idea, but I saw this on their repository.

    A flohmarkt can manually federate with other flohmarkts in its range

    If I’m reading this correctly, there’s no automatic federation between instances, which will make item discovery difficult.

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      2 months ago

      The goal is to promote a local market. Not much point to have a marketplace with used items from the other side of the world.

      Although manual curation of the connected instances would also work for a specialist marketplace where you can only find specific types of items.

      I think both use-cases make more sense than general marketplace with mostly irrelevant entries.