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Flohmarkt – A federated, decentral, classified market place using ActivityPub

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Calling it a marketplace is a little stretch, I think. It’s a place to post ads but it doesn’t facilitate one of the essential functions of a marketplace – buying/selling. That seem to happen completely outside of the thing. So it’s more like a specialised Mastodon instance.

I go to my local farmers market nearly every day and I've never heard anyone object to the name just because we use regular cash & cards that are not centrally managed by FarmersMarket Corp. :)

But there you have easy cash, on the net you need _something_. There could be some integration - even just a paypal link option if the user wishes so - or at least a hint on the site on how to faciliate a payment.

I think it's written by a German originally. Not sure where you're from, but in Europe we're able to make wire transfers for free for a long time; I can just send you some money given a SEPA number, and this is increasingly available in real-time.

Sure, it could be made easier. Flohmarkt is quite a young project though; the first time I heard about it was last summer at cccamp.

I know, but users of such a federated project might prefer something more private than disclosing a real name/IBAN. In comparison, even Paypal (with a @username or mail address) is a bit more private.

Very fair point. :)

AGPLv3

one of the cited instances, if you want to see how it looks: https://fedi.markets/

I mean I absolutely love the idea... but man it looks rather ugly. Also there is seemingly no thumbnail generation so images load at snail pace.

Yeah, unfortunately like with many other „federated XYZ“ projects, it’s the lack of good UI that stops me from using it.

I applaud the author for keeping a minimal footprint with vanilla JS and CSS. But this is very hard to maintain and understand for outsiders and makes Frontend tasks very tedious. Would love to help and contribute some stuff, but the stack is just not for me.

Still hope this succeeds. The idea is fantastic.

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