cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46268
Seems like this could be an interesting niche for a fediverse project. The only option that seems to think in that direction that I could find is Epicyon.
Seems like an ideal application of the federated technology. Start small as a neighbourhood sharing/bartering network and over time it can expand easily to cover an entire city or such.
I still remember when ebay bought gumtree cause it was encroaching on its business, they then made gumtree a very hard place to use and it has since never recovered. Things like the automatic delisting after a short time mean you can never find or sell rare things anymore. Ebay really is evil like most big tech.
Selling things could easily form a part of lemmy or any social platform. But you need lots of users
I don’t think you necessarily would need a lot of users. If you can group communities based on what they are interested in buying, it would require much less populate societies.