Yeah I've played around with flohmarket before, and I think it's a great idea. I'm willing to casually set up an instance if there's real interest in using it. People in Vancouver love to give away and get stuff on classified ads sites, so if enough people know, I think it would work. The version I fiddled around with was the one before CAPTCHA was implemented, I need that to avoid spam.

Main thing is interest in people using it. Get my comment 100 upvotes by Sunday and I'll start working on it.

I would love a non-enshittified alternative for Craigslist/Kijiji/FB.

I would trade a kingdom for it, except I'd have to post it for trade on Craigslist/Kijiji/FB and I'm certainly not doing that.

Some available .ca domains:

• canbuyandsell
• canclassifieds
• canmarketplace
• cheapmarket
• decentmarketplace
• decentmarket
• decentvalue
• dontfeedmeta
• fleamarkeplace
• goodmarketplace
• kirfmarketplace
• marketcan
• marketplacecan
• onlinemarketplace
• ourclassifieds
• thingsmarketplace

I would 100% be into this. I have no programming skills, but knowing that Kijiji is owned by eBay makes me hate using it even though they get $0 from my transactions.

I left FB years ago. The one thing I miss is Marketplace. So, yah, I would LOVE to see an alternative.

I tried to add context to the post but I guess it didn't work.

Anyway, I know there's like three people in this community lol but just in case anyone missed this post from the main fedécan community, someone is thinking about starting a federated classifieds marketplace which I think is a fantastic idea if we can get enough interest... I would love one fewer reason to go onto Facebook 😆.