You set up a server with the software that is available to you today ๐คท Don't hide behind self-inflicted learned helplessness to be a lazy capitalist consumer...
You are on anarchist.nexus and complain about self-inflicted / self-lerned helplessness? Are you serious? What do you think people that run your instance did? They took matters into their own hands and set it up. The same is true for Flohmarkt.
There is no distinction between users and admins. You can set up your own instance if you feel like there is a demand for it in your city. That is how decentralized community owned systems work. The same is true for Lemmy.
Yes that is the explicit design goal of Flohmarkt and a vital prerequisite for a decentralized system. The only nearby federation is a default setting that is very easy to configure in Flohmarkt.
Hashtags are only search filters, nothing gets posted anywere.
And Lemmy is designed like that because it doesn't aim to be location specific, unlike classified ads pages where that is the design goal.
Yes you need an account from the specific Mastodon instance to post on that Mastodon instance.
But anyways, that is besides the point. A classified listing is by design lioation specific. All your argument seems to boil down to is that you are annoyed that you don't have centralized accounts to log into different classified pages ๐คท
Commercial centralized online classified systems have a massive problem with ads from commercial sellers as a result, yes. Is that really what you want?
They want local listings and not commercial sellers spamming them with ads yes.
This is for a classified page. Why would you expect to find offers from the other side of the country in it, especially for a large country like Canada?
That would be highly confusing and prevent browsing the listing for interesting offers near you.
Classified pages are not search tools for finding highly specialized offers to order by mail from the other side of the country. They are local listings for buying used stuff that that you might have not even have known you want before browsing the listing.
Because this is a location specific classified page and not a global social network obviously ๐
I really don't get how this is so hard to understand. This is how all of these classified pages have always worked all the way back to when they were still printed in local newspapers or were just a pinboard in the local supermarket.
Why would a classified site for Berlin allow you to post ads for Chicago? Just use a classifed site for Chicago ๐คท
And no, the Federation model of Flohmarkt is like Mastodon, Lemmy is the odd one out, but also Lemmy does not allow starting communities on other servers. You need a local account for that.
Someone could set up a Flohmarkt instance specifically for motorbikes which would probably serve that niche better.
Classified pages are however not predominantly used like that, at least here.