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:
Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days agowww.craigslist.org/about/help/posting/…/location
So what do you call this?
Arcka@midwest.social 1 day ago
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day 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.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 days 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.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
What? That is 100% exactly like Flohmarkt works with server specific locations.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
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)
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days 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 🙄