How about a e-commerce site in the Fediverse where you can either sell second hand stuff (like ebay) or sell stuff you made or paid people make (like amazon or etsy) but with multiple instances with different moderation, shipment costs and some might require you to have id obviously their will be sketchy instances or users but the community could make a list of instances/users to avoid or to be careful of at least, and most the users on this list would be user who their instance hasn’t banned (which might put the instance into disrepute, since if they are notorious enough to land on this list you should probably ban them) and the people who are in charge of this list can get reports from user and they will have to conform from other buyers who bought from that individual to make sure people aren’t lying because they don’t like the person or something, it could be federated/integrated with services like mastodon, peertube and possibly lemmy where you can sign in with it with your account from these services, but you have to make an account with this service to actually sell anything, but user from these other platforms could link their shop on this service on their mastodon post and/or account and peertube videos/account (sorry if I got carried away), what do you guys think?
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt
I run a Slovenian instance, https://flohmarkt.gregtech.eu/
Cool for classified ads kind of stuff. Though personally I’d love to see more of a storefront kind of thing like Etsy. Etsy has become so greedy that it’s often not profitable for small businesses and definitely not for individuals doing stuff in their free time out of passion like it used to be.
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Man I came to comment I had the same idea… Just to find out someone else has implemented it again…
But that’s cool. I still not fully understand what this Flohmarkt is. Is it just a social platform designed to share things you want to sell instead of pictures of your food?
I should really take a deeper look into it.
The problem would be payments though since you probably don’t want the instance admins handling your payment info. Maybe it could work more like craigslist though where payment is up to the buyer and seller to figure out, but that has its own problems. It does seem like it would be useful though if there was a way to make it fairly safe
Honestly a decentralised craigslist would be great.
Lots of sites offload payment directly to stripe, PayPal, etc. many even let you choose the provider. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work the same way.
there could be a centralised payment system that all instances have to use
payment system
Yeah, not going to happen.