The name has already made this nonviable for the average person
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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What localities does this operate in so far?
Really interesting! can't wait to see how it progresses along.
This is what i need so i can finally delete facebook but unfortunately this is too early and small with nothing piblically uk based and no one looking at it so things would never sell.
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Cool. If u can host it as a tor hidden service that is a large an influential market that might benefit from such a thing. Haven't looked but it might need some additional features to work as a decent platform in that sense.
Great idea. I just wonder how Flohmarkt is read by non-Germans. Anyone want to state their opinion, their initial experience seeing the word, on that?
Initial impressions of the name are not great.
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.
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?
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I read it as being pronounced something like "flow-marked"
yeah, it's quite close
just read it as 'flow market,' realized it was german, and looked up the word. it doesn't look weird at first glance.
I think an English localization as 'Flowmarkt' or 'Flowmarket' might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for 'Flohmarkt' isn't clear at a first glance.
Why would English be objectively better than German?
Because more people speak it?
Got it, let's name it in mandarin then
| Language | Native Speakers | Total Speakers | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | ~380 million | ~1.5 billion | Wikipedia |
| German | ~76–95 million | ~155–220 million | Wikipedia |
| Mandarin | ~941 million–1.12 billion | ~1.1–1.3 billion | Wikipedia |
Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.
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Definitely weird on first reading. New names often seem weird or dumb at first so maybe I'll just get used to it. Anglicizing it might make sense? Fleamarkt?
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any of them US?
Feel free to host an US instance :)
Maybe someone may want to put links to Flohmarkt instances on Craigslist or FB Marketplace to put more eyes on it?