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Is there / could there be a federated ebay?
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A federated ebay is basically impossible. For that you would need real time communication between different instances. Otherwise people on the sellers instance would have an advantage in winning the auctions, defeating the purpose of making it federated in the first place.
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I have seen the fhlomarkets in the past, I’d love for them to take off but uptake is slow and usually it’s odd items at ridiculous prices.
I know there was a post on lemmy/piefed from a Melbourne based guy who added a site he was working on a few months ago. Not sure how it went but he was open to talking about how he set up and what he was hoping from it.
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A federated ebay is basically impossible. For that you would need real time communication between different instances. Otherwise people on the sellers instance would have an advantage in winning the auctions, defeating the purpose of making it federated in the first place.
It wouldn’t need to be that way — if everyone puts in their max bid at time of bidding, the seller’s instance keeps that secret until the auction clears, and then waits for all bids to clear at the end and picks the highest, you would get the correct outcome.
Meanwhile in the middle the current bid price might be out-of-date by some minutes.
Auction sniping would not work but idgaf about that for sure.
Trust in the seller’s instance seems like it would be the hard part.
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We could start a buy/sell/swap space using existing Lemmy technology, if we left the messy details for users to figure out for themselves.
Messy details add up quick, though. Payments, currencies, mailing addresses, reputation, conflict resolution, returns, scammers and spam.
But "Craigs List" solved very little of that on day one, and went on to be pretty successful.
So it's
possible.happening now, I've just learned. Neat!.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade(Edit: Added link to the real thing. Thanks!)
There was also Free cycle kinda worked for a while and was pretty basic
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Also, if you do auctions across international borders, how do you even prosecute somebody who does not obey the rules of an auction?
On that topic of international law ... how do you prevent users from buying and selling things that are illegal to buy and sell, at least in some jurisdictions? What do you do when users across different federated instances with different rules are trying to buy/sell guns, drugs, and child porn?
Same thing we do with posting illegal stuff here on Lemmy.
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I mean theoretically, sure. Realistically, no. Because people would reneg on their offers, and you have no recourse as a seller.
Cash and in-person transfers would be enough for me. I’m only on facebook because I find a lot of great stuff on marketplace, and I always do local meetups and pay in person. I wish there was a better platform.
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...flohmarket?
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We could start a buy/sell/swap space using existing Lemmy technology, if we left the messy details for users to figure out for themselves.
Messy details add up quick, though. Payments, currencies, mailing addresses, reputation, conflict resolution, returns, scammers and spam.
But "Craigs List" solved very little of that on day one, and went on to be pretty successful.
So it's
possible.happening now, I've just learned. Neat!.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade(Edit: Added link to the real thing. Thanks!)
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade
one of lemmys best communities -
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade
one of lemmys best communitiesOh! Thanks!
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Oh! Thanks!
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