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.
The Epicyon developer also commented on it: https://lemmy.ml/post/46268/comment/71211 with some interesting news.
Though there are currently no plans to federate, the platform Karrot would be a nice example, for selling local services and 2nd hand goods. The maintainer of the project is currently also involved with the Open Hospitality Network federation project.
What is it? I bailed on only being able to see “You don’t have JavaScript enabled. This website needs JavaScript to work, because it uses client-side rendering.”
From the front page:
“Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group. Whether you are saving and sharing food, running a free shop or a makerspace, keeping a community garden or a bike-kitchen…”
Thank you.
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.
