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.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    19·
    4 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·
      4 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·
        4 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.