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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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.