What features are you thinking? To put a price on a post/mark as sold etc?
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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Another idea you could potentially add down the line: what about functionality similar to Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace? Those tend to work by helping you focus on your local area as opposed to EBay.
Granted, Craigslist is largely fine imo, I’m just proposing a way to help you kill off Facebook
carlnewton@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
I agree with the user above, over here facebook is so entrenched not just thanks to the location-based groups and tagging but through the marketplace too. People rely on it to sell their old stuff. Of course the main hurdle as usual is making people care enough to use a different thing, even though the current solution works well enough for their use case. I could see it happening if towns adopted it officially and there was a bit of communication about it. Does your program federate with other instances ? like, if I want to sell my old table, will people in nearby towns that are hosting their own instance see my post ?
In any case great initiative
carlnewton@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Thanks for this. Regarding your point on on making people care, I’ve just written up a post that touches on this: feddit.uk/post/45292700
Federation is not yet built in, but I have a plan. There are some details here: …github.io/…/location-based-social-network/#conne…
richardwonka@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
integrate it with #flohmarkt (and the fediverse in general) and you don’t need to reinvent the wheel :-)
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Keep in mind that OP’s project is already based a different protocol than the Fediverse for their own reasons. Trying to create and maintain a bridge between different protocols might be more work than to just make modifications to posts in the current system.
Other factors are end user experience and branding. Keep in mind that the average Facebook/NextDoor user isn’t tech-savvy, and could also be put off by the weird software names commonly found in the Fediverse
It’s likely worthwhile for OP to look into flohmarkt, but integration might not be the optimal method