Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace

• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because the ability to post is locked to a server’s region.

  As you said, I can’t go in and browse the United States listings. Why? What technical reason is there to prevent me, as a user, from wanting to join?

  NOT as an admin. As a user.

  Lets think of this like mastodon and hashtags for a second. If the hashtag were a location, why would I need to join aus.social to see the hashtag location for Australia? Why would I need to join mstdn.ca to see the hashtags for Canada?

  I think the flohmarkt design inherently works the opposite of other federated designs. It is limiting by design, limiting server use by region, rather than what a user is choosing to follow.

  I’m concerned I’m not explaining something properly, so if there is a part that isn’t making sense to you, let me know.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why would a classified site for Berlin allow you to post ads for Chicago? Just use a classifed site for Chicago 🤷

    And no, the Federation model of Flohmarkt is like Mastodon, Lemmy is the odd one out, but also Lemmy does not allow starting communities on other servers. You need a local account for that.

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    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why would a classified site for Berlin allow you to post ads for Chicago? Just use a classifed site for Chicago 🤷

      Because the same user regularly travels to both. A separate post would be absolutely fine, but I shouldn’t need an entirely different site for that. Its a listing.

      And no, the Federation model of Flohmarkt is like Mastodon, Lemmy is the odd one out, but also Lemmy does not allow starting communities on other servers. You need a local account for that.

      I do not need to create an account on a different server to post on that server.

      I only need the one account. I am not blocked from posting in lemmy.ca because I live in the US, I’m not blocked from posting in midwest.social because I don’t live in the midwest.

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      • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes you need an account from the specific Mastodon instance to post on that Mastodon instance.

        But anyways, that is besides the point. A classified listing is by design lioation specific. All your argument seems to boil down to is that you are annoyed that you don’t have centralized accounts to log into different classified pages 🤷

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