Flohmarkt is still a really young platform, but it shows promise as a way for people to create listings, and reach out to one another.

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
    151·
    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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      19·
      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.

      • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        Sure there is a use. That’s eBay. I collect older consoles and games and sometimes it’s the only way to get an item.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
          3·
          2 months ago

          Last time I used eBay it was also country specific.

          And for that usecase a specialised marketplace for retro-gaming that you can actually browse would be much better as well.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, I’ll try to look into this for clarity. It really depends on what they mean here - I think they’re referring to curated server following between admins, which is what PeerTube does.

      When I tested out the messaging system, I was able to federate back and forth with Mastodon. Maybe it works fine at a user level, it’s just the search entries that don’t get federated automatically?