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Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace (codeberg.org)

submitted 7 hours ago by Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I’d like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

The developers are always open for discussion on their IRC channel: https://web.libera.chat/?nick=GithubGuest%3F#flohmarkt

Please feel free to host a local instance for your city/town and invite friends and family to post. Flohmarkt relies on local relationships and pick-up items only rather than shipping stuff worldwide.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Great idea... Not so sure about the name, though. Hard to spread by word of mouth when you have to spell it out

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on your native language.
It's German for flea market

But yeah, I guess in English speaking countries it's a bit hard to say ;⁠-⁠)

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Because of the three hard consonants at the end and they all get pronounced? I mean the "Flohma" part shouldn't be an issue... 😆

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The point is not that it's difficult to pronounce, but that the correct spelling is difficult to guess from the pronunciation (in English) and therefore the person recommending it in conversation must provide the spelling explicitly, which is annoying and likely to lead to confusion and failure to find the actual site.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 51 seconds ago)

Thanks. I didn't get that. I guess that's always an issue with foreign words. Or invented company and product names like in the times when it was popular to name a startup something like flupidoo... and they were all called like that.

On the other hand it should also help with the googling. I mean if you call it 'market' or 'flea market', American users will get like 50 pages of unrelated matches first. Like if you google Lemmy.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Just pronounced like market, without the 'e'
Or like the name Mark with a 't' at the end
Or actually pretty much like 'marked', when you e.g. mark a word

Maybe disregard the first 2 approximations, 'marked' is very much how it's pronounced

Edit: to complete this:
You would say something like 'flow marked' and that would be very very near the correct pronunciation :⁠-⁠)

Edit 2: the h is silent and only says, that the o before is longer. So just like you stretch the o in flow.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The first instance is called fedi.markets

Instances can be named anything. We have sh.itjust.works on Lemmy after all

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Ah fair enough