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I believe Flohmarkt is a fediverse alternative.
Interesting ... It looks pretty active. A few dozen instances, mainly in Germany. This has real potential.
Would be even better if these things didn't use completely stupid names!! They're not clever, or hip, or even fun. Flohmarkt sounds like I'd be too embarrassed to share what it is.
Is just German for flea market.
Yeah I see that now after looking it up. OK that makes more sense. Still not a great alt for North America yet
You can name your flohmarkt instance whatever you want though.
That's good to know, I see is avail on Yunohost, too
If it was named something else illogical itd work, like weinerschnitzel selling no schnitzel
Flohmarket is just the name of the software, which as another said, is the German word for flea market. I suspect the creator is German.
Anyone who self-hosts their own flohmarket instance can call their instance whatever they want.
Names are subjective. "Youtube" makes no sense if you discard all the grab that it has now in retrospective. "Craiglist" is even worse.
YouTube always made sense because "tube" is old slang for TV.
Yeah, I guess I'm old enough to remember TVs being referred to a such hah 😅
...this is the first time in the entire Fediverse that I feel not-that-old 👀
Also known as the "boob tube" with "boob" being a synonym for "idiot". I'm not that old...