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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Lol, must be created by a german. Flohmarkt literally means a private marketplace. Directly translated to english its a “Fleamarket”.
@Samsy #Flohmarkt is created by 👉 @grindhold
This is awesome and there is gonna be so much fraud! All the fraud.
One of the biggest challenges with online marketplaces is personal safety for physical meetups and scam prevention for online sales. It’ll be interesting if there are any efforts to solve this, such as an escrow system or other process to keep buyers and sellers honest.
I mean, how does craigslist handle it? This doesn’t seem much more technically complex than whatever craigslist does
I can’t speak for Craigslist, but in my area Gumtree is big, and I know from first-hand experience that they “handle it” by waiting for the crime to occur and be reported to police, then they give police the list of all IP addresses that viewed a listing. Having stared down the pointy end of a knife right outside my own home, I feel there’s an opportunity to build a better system that keeps people honest and discourages thieves.
Dumb question.
Drugs? Like I immediately thought silk road 3.0
I love this.
Yeah, very nice. It will be tough to bootstrap since you need a critical mass of people who ideally live close together so that it’s cheap and quick enough to deliver the items in question.
I’ll give it a try. Nothing to loose.
So is there a link to a live instance?
edit: link to live instance https://rollenspiel.trade/#all
This is so cool.
@deadsuperhero Craigslist for Fediverse?
this is really interesting, and I’d love to see it more developped and polished! Will check it out often to see progress!
Vlooienmarkt in Dutch.
I was thinking something like this for jobs on the fediverse would be great, then thought it would probably be filled with high paying, highly technical jobs or low paying garbage jobs, or both with no between space. I’d love to be wrong.
This is awesome, I hope I get one near me someday.
