• Vicinus@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    15 days ago

    My understanding is federated “payment” systems are difficult. I think there is active discussion on the topic, but I’m not sure where code/development is at, or if it’s even started.

    I think flohmarkt (“federated decentral classified ad software”) is the closest we have right now. It has low (~10-30) Monthly Active Users (MAU), but is in active development.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    15 days ago

    I mean theoretically, sure. Realistically, no. Because people would reneg on their offers, and you have no recourse as a seller.

  • Vittelius@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    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.

    • CandleTiger@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      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      Meanwhile in the middle the current bid price might be out-of-date by some minutes.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.

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    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.

  • EnsignWashout@startrek.websiteEnglish
    0·
    14 days ago

    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 surreal thing. Thanks!) (Edit 2: I swallowed the onion whole. Mostly jokes, there, I think. I’m gonna leave the link anyway.)

    • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Biggest issue is probably that everything, including private messages, is public here. Not where you want to share your adress/phone number.