Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace

• Arcka@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It seems like on CL the city labels are mostly for human readable convenience and behind the scenes it’s by distance. You can set a distance from any point:

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  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is correct.

    You used to have to go by city/metro area only, but now you can do it by search area. That said, you can alter your metro area or search radius at any point.

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• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There aren’t servers in each of those locations.

  Its a designated region for users to make use of. User based, not server based.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What? That is 100% exactly like Flohmarkt works with server specific locations.

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    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      server specific

      Maybe there is some miscommunication here.

      Does the user determine their geographic region of themselves as a user, or is that determined by the server?

      (Again, Craigslist works by the *user* picking a location, there is absolutely not a physical server at those locations)

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      • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can chose your geographic location by chosing the instance that covers the geographic location you are interested in, just like you chose the location of the server in Craigslist.

        Obviously the server is on the internet an can be physically hosted whereever 🙄

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