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Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace (codeberg.org)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.

Most German dialects (including standard German) barely pronounce that r. It is noticeable, but far from a "hard" pronunciation, in that case i is more like prolonging the "a" sound.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't disagree conceptually, but English has been a lingua franca for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

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.