flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace

I only see far away ads because there are no public instances on my continent, as far as I can tell.

So location is by instance and not by user?

That seems an odd (and kind of problematic) design...

Wait, you mean it actually won't let you set your location and search for local ads?

If someone is going to build a site for selling things, that's 'kind of' the most important part of the site. Having it be federated makes that a thousand times worse. Now I'm supposed to find other local federated services in my area?

That is so against how any of this works.

Okay, so you're saying this will never be broadly used. Got it.

Starbucks always worked for me. plenty public and plenty of cameras

shockingly, every deal went off without a hitch.

I miss craigslist

Come on.

but apparently people here in this comment thread think this is bad design 🙄

1. Users ask questions about "How would this work?"
2. You gave us answers that don't seem to work for any of our use cases
3. Eyeroll emoji cause the user is wrong, apparently

And on top of it, you are becoming belligerent to users, insisting they don't know what they're talking about.

One thing I would find valuable is mechanisms to dissuade the listings with obviously false prices. So many things on CL that aren't really free or $1.

How does location specificity limit spam? Surely the nature of spam is it costs nothing to produce and is done en masse.

And I mean any kind of bad actor really. Spammer, scammer, or even just a griefer deciding the gum up the system for lulz.

To be clear these are genuine questions, I’m not here to shit on the project or anything. I’d love more than anything for there to be good answers to them.

I’m not here to cheerlead for eBay, but I don’t think that’s entirely true.

EBay is an exception here, its also not a classified ads site.

EBay is an auction house. Auction houses have stricter rules.

Classified ads is you grandma posting her VCR for sale, or selling your used boat locally. Its a parallel to a newspaper classified section. There has never been any control on sites like this other than "buyer beware". Craigslist, Kijiji and Facebunk Marketplace are all classified ad equivalents and have zero guarantee or protections usually.

Given these are meant to be local ads, the onus is on the buyer to go to the sellers house and verify what they are buying.

Reputation via buyer/seller history on eBay. Not so much on craigslist.

On reddit, you'd have a bot that tracked purchases and sales and their successes, which would automatically post reputation on new posts/comments in each thread.

The various local options -like FB marketplace - don't have anything. When shipping things, yes Ebay has a really decent dispute process (leaning in favor of purchasers). Something like this would be best to aim for the local market first rather than shipped items that are harder to manage.

huh? any serious marketplace has cheap or free basic insurance for purchases.

Yeah. I've sold a thing or two using it.

I'll just go ahead and put ads.mydomain.net into uBo. And... Done.

Super Terrified Blue

sure thing, just gonna get started on it now so....give me like 20min.

Sorry, took 30min not 20...anywho https://market.andmc.ca/

Which other location specific services do you have in mind? I've been thinking about similar things on and off. Mobilizon is a thing, and something with groups but I'm not sure what would work for locals.

Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever even come close to being scammed on Craigslist… knock on wood.

Having spent a good amount of the last several weeks working on several self hosted things,I would have to agree. Simple projects shouldn't take long... But some shit happens.

When something is done and working, it is satisfying.

How do you know?

/s