Great idea. I just wonder how Flohmarkt is read by non-Germans. Anyone want to state their opinion, their initial experience seeing the word, on that?
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Non-German but I am in the EU. Didn't find it odd at all. Just assumed it was "flow market" in German.
Close. It's flea market.
I think an English localization as 'Flowmarkt' or 'Flowmarket' might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for 'Flohmarkt' isn't clear at a first glance.
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Swede here, see no issue with the name. I'll just ignore the h when pronouncing though.
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Initial impressions of the name are not great.
"flow market"
just read it as 'flow market,' realized it was german, and looked up the word. it doesn't look weird at first glance.
My American brain wants to read it as "FlowMart", or "Flowmark". Neither of which I have a problem with.
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I forgot its spelling the moment i scrolled past it.
At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
Most German dialects (including standard German) barely pronounce that r. It is noticeable, but far from a "hard" pronunciation, in that case i is more like prolonging the "a" sound.
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Definitely weird on first reading. New names often seem weird or dumb at first so maybe I'll just get used to it. Anglicizing it might make sense? Fleamarkt?
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I tried to use it myself and it really isn't ready yet. It's missing so many features that a specialized Lemmy instance seems like a much better alternative.
Maybe share your vision with the devs or actively contribute yourself to the development of this platform? :)
This is what i need so i can finally delete facebook but unfortunately this is too early and small with nothing piblically uk based and no one looking at it so things would never sell.
Really interesting! can't wait to see how it progresses along.
Maybe someone may want to put links to Flohmarkt instances on Craigslist or FB Marketplace to put more eyes on it?
any of them US?
Feel free to host an US instance :)
What localities does this operate in so far?