Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace
poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 months agoCraigslist has server specific locations. I am not familiar with how Facebook market works, but even ebay has country specific servers, which in Europe often means very location specific due to small countries.
Craigslist has server specific locations.
No, Craigslist has region specific sections.
The location of the server is not relevant. The servers are all hosting the same information, the user is picking the region they wish to browse.
There are not physical servers (or even virtual) to host each of those locations. They are subdirectories on a web host.
This is ridiculous. Obviously we are not talking about dialup connections where you need to call a server with the region code and a physical location 🙄
Craigslist might host it all on the same physical server since it does not support an open federation, but it is exactly the same concept as instance (=server) specific locations.
I’ll ask again - can I join any server and set my location and get local content for me, here in the United States where there is currently no server listed as being online or available?
No you can’t. This isn’t a centralized platform.
But like with ebay for example, you sign up on a locaction specific instance (ebay Germany, not ebay Spain) and chose your location that way.
To my (very limited) limited understanding Craigslist works the same way. You sign up and as part of the sign up you are asked for the location you are interested in, which is like an instance choser which then redirects you to a server (instance, section, whatever) that only lists adverts for that specific location that you signed up for.
Auli@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
No it has country specific URLs. And the seller can list stuff on what instances they want. Even though lots of. Cin ship internationally.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I am not very familiar with how the seller part of ebay works, but as a buyer I have a country specific account that only allows to bid on country specific posts. At least it was like that when I used it last some years ago.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You must be joking. Ebay does not now, nor has ever worked that way.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
It certainly did here in Europe.