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

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[–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 116 points 1 week ago (59 children)

The name has already made this nonviable for the average person

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (30 children)

It's not that bad. It's just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn't have an issue with at least "Markt". Not far from a cognate.

Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But telling a friend about this starts with the name. Simple names are easier. And that would just start with making it short. Single syllable being best.

[–] DarkDarkHouse 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn’t this more like the software you’d use to build whatever local (but maybe federated) site? Like, you don’t ask your friend if they’ve been on Shopify or Squarespace lately.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, possibly. Depends -- if the data is federated between instances (which I assumed) you could have access to the whole world's market and it would still be useful if there was a feature that allowed you filter out locations you're not currently interested in.