• non_burglar@lemmy.world
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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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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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.