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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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 66 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

God... remember how fucking simple craigslist was when it hit it's peak? The fact that Grandpa could take a shaky flip phone picture and post a thing you needed right around the corner, no fat or other frivolous horseshit...

Craigslist is still simple last I checked, but the user base left and now dominated by spam from retail and drop shippers masquerading as local people selling goods from their garage.

Nothing gold can stay

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

At least when I used Craigslist, there was no social network element to it, so it was difficult to determine the trustworthiness of any given poster.

For that reason, I don't want a Fediverse clone of Craigslist -- I want an existing Fediverse platform to add a marketplace. I will not use anonymous marketplaces.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can use gpg signatures

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That wouldn’t really solve it though. The problem is not a man in the middle attack. It’s someone scamming you. They can do it, then generate another signature, repeat, etc.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Web of trust - did you hear? https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x547.html

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you only trade with people in your web of trust? That’s not feasible. People flock to these websites to trade with strangers. You don’t need a middleman to trade with people you already trust.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Friend of friend networks, that's how classmates have benefits created ( a prototype to "prove" 6 connections theory )

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