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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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In my local area government interrogates selling boards about my data what I sell and such. I wonder if this could be forever resistant to authorities provided somebody actually uses it?
What about Craigslist
What I want is an eBay alternative. Like old school eBay, with basic (non obscured) reputation system, auction options, stuff like that.
Ghost town and nothing but scams and business spam at this point. It’s a shame that FB marketplace killed it, because it was relatively simple and useful for what it did
any of them US?
Feel free to host an US instance :)
What localities does this operate in so far?
I am super curious how does it stack against DAC7 European Directive 2021/514 from 22 march 2021.
The European law says that such sites must provide a list of users and sales
No matter where the site is operated from, as long as EU citizens can access it from their home countries?
Because I doubt that even fb marketplace can muster that with plausible accuracy. Especially the sales. When you take something down on marketplace it will ask if you sold it or not, but you can just tell it to mind its own business and say “no I totally just changed my mind”
Yes as long as business is accessible in EU it must set up hq in one of the eu countries and report data on sellers to that country government. (Thus phone number registration requirement which to have you must show and record ID and personal information to mobile carrier)
how does that work for flohmarkt I don’t know but I can try to set up an instance and we will see what happens. Will there be any nasty letters or not. I suspect as long as it is small thing no one will be interested but if it grew there probably would be an attempt to take it down and fines
I would really really want it to work so we can just don’t care about ever watchful big brother
@Emmie @Temperche
IANAL but: researching this topic was indeed a task during the first year of the project. The German implementation of DAC7 (the PStTG) includes an exception for digital black boards like flohmarkt. The criterion is that there is no formal form of forming a contact on the platform itself. Here’s the official statement (see 1.1) https://www.bzst.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Digitale/_Plattformbetreiber/FAQ/PStTG.pdf?%5C%5C_blob=publicationFile&v=3bonus: you’ll will find many more hillariously unpronouncable words in this document.
Does your EU-country has exceptions?
@Emmie @Temperche might need to add that the exception is implicit. we’ve always argued that way before we knew this FAQ. until it came to our attention we just weren’t sure because, well, we’re no lawyers, duh :)
I just set up a Slovenian instance, flohmarkt.gregtech.eu
Edit: which range should I use for it, which one do you recommend?
Maybe you can request your instance to be added here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances
Already added it
Ad-software huh ? Maybe this could solve the monetisation issue of let’s say PeerTube
I don’t think this can be used for monetisation, I am not sure the instance gets a cut of any sales, they are just connecting users.
That is an issue the Fediverse, with its anticapitalist stance, has yet to full address but Ghost is addressing how to monetise content in a Substack way and that subscription model is probably one that would be more acceptable on the Fediverse.
What a horrible name.
It’s German
It is well known that only names which are in the devinely decreed English language are acceptable on the internet
What a horrible language.
I tried to use it myself and it really isn’t ready yet. It’s missing so many features that a specialized Lemmy instance seems like a much better alternative.
Maybe share your vision with the devs or actively contribute yourself to the development of this platform? :)
This looks cool! Any android apps?
AFAIK not. Feel free to develop one!
I would host an instance if it’s working well enough - has anyone done it yet?
Many people, including some in the thread!
Maybe someone may want to put links to Flohmarkt instances on Craigslist or FB Marketplace to put more eyes on it?
Cool. If u can host it as a tor hidden service that is a large an influential market that might benefit from such a thing. Haven’t looked but it might need some additional features to work as a decent platform in that sense.
Really interesting! can’t wait to see how it progresses along.
as always with these, it really comes down to whos using it.
