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.
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Lovely idea but what is that name
German word for flea market
Now that I know I love it.
could’ve just read the first two paragraphs.
I just realized the Swedish slang for flea market would work a charm. Loppis. It even sounds like a hip app. Someone quick make it an open fedi platform before the capitalists take it!
Edit: It’s short for loppmarknad. Loppa = flea. Marknad = market.
Loppis sounds way better than Flohmarkt, and I say that as a german native speaker.
That is the German name for flea markets. It’s when people sell old stuff they don’t want or need anymore in their garden/some square/the street.
Guess the creators are Germans…
I don’t think the “decentralize and federate everything” strategy is a good idea when it comes to online marketplaces.
We’ve seen how quickly bad actors can wreak havoc on the Fediverse like that one time when Lemmy Shitpost was closed for weeks due to people creating new instances of their own and spamming the community with CSAM. Imagine how much you open the community up to scams or criminal activity when money gets involved.
I mean if there’s a time to test it out, it’s right now I would argue.
Lemmy is still small enough to test those things.
Almost named it something people will remember how to spell.
There have already been projects like that in the cryptocurrency space.
Yeah, I’m aware. I think the Nostr space in particular is doing a really great job, and has some good ideas on how to make it work. Why this development is significant, though, is that it’s happening in ActivityPub space. It’s not as robust, and doesn’t have all the answers. But, the existence of such a project means that people within the space are already thinking about how to make this concept viable for the Fediverse.
I would love for this to become successful! I am assuming it’s not in any great state yet, but the decentralized future is waiting for us !
