As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I’d like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances
The name has already made this nonviable for the average person
I can’t understand why every other fediverse name is so stupid as to be off putting to the average user.
It’s not that bad. It’s just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn’t have an issue with at least “Markt”. Not far from a cognate.
Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.
Yep. It’s kind of annoying when people see everything through an “english” lense and assume anything that isn’t made to work for english speakers won’t work…
We have to stop sending end users to software solutions for web admins. We don’t send them yo “nginx” or “apache”, after all.
Someone throw up a website using this software and give the site a sensible name, and then direct users to that website.
Flohcebook Marktplace
Fleabook
Flohcebook mohktplohce
Interesting idea. How do you deal with illegal trade?
That name…
They need to use an easier name, like Kleinanzeigen or something
Sprich deutsch!
This is what i need so i can finally delete facebook but unfortunately this is too early and small with nothing piblically uk based and no one looking at it so things would never sell.
Really interesting! can’t wait to see how it progresses along.
Great idea. I just wonder how Flohmarkt is read by non-Germans. Anyone want to state their opinion, their initial experience seeing the word, on that?
My American brain wants to read it as “FlowMart”, or “Flowmark”. Neither of which I have a problem with.
Swede here, see no issue with the name. I’ll just ignore the h when pronouncing though.
Non-German but I am in the EU. Didn’t find it odd at all. Just assumed it was “flow market” in German.
Close. It’s flea market.
I forgot its spelling the moment i scrolled past it.
“flow market”
Initial impressions of the name are not great.
I think an English localization as ‘Flowmarkt’ or ‘Flowmarket’ might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for ‘Flohmarkt’ isn’t clear at a first glance.
Why would English be objectively better than German?
Because more people speak it?
This is about localization, not about renaming the thing
Got it, let’s name it in mandarin then
Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.
I love that you called it the lingua franca.
Why yes, English is the French.
Uh do you not know what “lingua franca” means or are you making a joke?
Language Native Speakers Total Speakers Sources English ~380 million ~1.5 billion Wikipedia German ~76–95 million ~155–220 million Wikipedia Mandarin ~941 million–1.12 billion ~1.1–1.3 billion Wikipedia Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.
At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
Yeah but if you had to search for it you’d have a trouble spelling it. Flowmarked would be how English speakers would hear that I think.
It probably needs an English brand name for outside the germano-sphere - fedimarket?
And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?
I don’t disagree conceptually, but English has been a lingua franca for a long time now.
That’s not an issue for brands. German and Chinese brands are just doing fine everywhere with the possible exception of the two countries in the world where people are not exposed to other languages.
I read it as being pronounced something like “flow-marked”
yeah, it’s quite close
just read it as ‘flow market,’ realized it was german, and looked up the word. it doesn’t look weird at first glance.
Definitely weird on first reading. New names often seem weird or dumb at first so maybe I’ll just get used to it. Anglicizing it might make sense? Fleamarkt?
It reads like regurgitating dehydrated phlegm
What localities does this operate in so far?
Maybe someone may want to put links to Flohmarkt instances on Craigslist or FB Marketplace to put more eyes on it?
any of them US?
Feel free to host an US instance :)
Cool. If u can host it as a tor hidden service that is a large an influential market that might benefit from such a thing. Haven’t looked but it might need some additional features to work as a decent platform in that sense.
