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.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    A federated ebay\vinted\amazon alternative sounds like a great idea, but I saw this on their repository.

    A flohmarkt can manually federate with other flohmarkts in its range

    If I'm reading this correctly, there's no automatic federation between instances, which will make item discovery difficult.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
      M
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I'll try to look into this for clarity. It really depends on what they mean here - I think they're referring to curated server following between admins, which is what PeerTube does.

      When I tested out the messaging system, I was able to federate back and forth with Mastodon. Maybe it works fine at a user level, it's just the search entries that don't get federated automatically?