• non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Decentralization is not the issue here. This is a design choice that doesn’t understand how the service will be used.

    In the example of my country, Canada, let’s say I have two flohmarkt servers: east and west. To look for a certain make and model of car, I have to check my region first, then sign out, sign back into the other region?

    Why would anyone continue to use this as a shopping mechanism?

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      16 hours ago

      This is for a classified page. Why would you expect to find offers from the other side of the country in it, especially for a large country like Canada?

      That would be highly confusing and prevent browsing the listing for interesting offers near you.

      Classified pages are not search tools for finding highly specialized offers to order by mail from the other side of the country. They are local listings for buying used stuff that that you might have not even have known you want before browsing the listing.

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        16 hours ago

        They are local listings for buying used stuff that that you might have not even have known you want before browsing the listing.

        That is not how I nor anyone I know uses our listings on Kijiji. I go to look for specific things i don’t want to buy new. I do not browse used stuff for sale. I’ve personally bought motorbikes 600km away because the search area has to be bigger for more niche items. I also set up the sale of a car to a guy 1800km away via kijiji.

        I couldn’t do either of these using flohmarkt, so it isn’t really useful to me, federated or not.

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          15 hours ago

          Someone could set up a Flohmarkt instance specifically for motorbikes which would probably serve that niche better.

          Classified pages are however not predominantly used like that, at least here.