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[–] artyom@piefed.social 129 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would be very cool if it actually had basic functionality, like searching for items that are actually near me and not 3045390 miles way...

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

By default Flohmarkt recommends to set a location and only federate with instances in a certain geographic distance. So if you only see far away ads, then you are either using the wrong instance or the instance is misconfigured.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I only see far away ads because there are no public instances on my continent, as far as I can tell.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

😆be the change you wish for

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Brb, setting up tons of instances for my area so it looks popular

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 36 points 1 day ago (76 children)

So location is by instance and not by user?

That seems an odd (and kind of problematic) design...

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Wait, you mean it actually won't let you set your location and search for local ads?

If someone is going to build a site for selling things, that's 'kind of' the most important part of the site. Having it be federated makes that a thousand times worse. Now I'm supposed to find other local federated services in my area?

That is so against how any of this works.

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Okay, so you're saying this will never be broadly used. Got it.

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