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Hey Lemmy. I hate Facebook. But I miss Marketplace. So I built Garage as a means to reclaim Melb's 2nd hand marketplace from Meta (cause fuck Zuck). It's pretty new but check it out below (getgarage.com.au)

submitted 1 week ago by pntha@lemmy.world to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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I built Garage as a side-project and have finally realised it into production. I'm just a dude working full-time, renting in Caulfield and out of pocket for it. But I'd rather pay to host Garage than have Zuck sell me. Your support means a lot!

Mods: I realise rule 5 says no ads. If this breaks it, I'll remove. I'm not really selling anything, just trying to give people a second option to Facebook.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucking hell yes!

American, so, not gonna be able to participate locally, but yeah, if we could all somehow have an opensource, federated version of craigslist/FB market?

Absolutely yes.

And even if not, still a great project!

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell yeah! I miss the old Craigslist it shit now and usable. But an open source market place like this one would be damn sweet!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

With something like this... maybe a model where the code is open source, but also, somehow, a listing costs a small amount, to help cover server costs, would make sense?

A 'membership' regular payment model probably would not work.... for anyone other than 'supersellers'...

Or, maybe, there could be a way to... federate/distribute the server processing itself.

Allow vokunteers to run a process that basicslly serves as a distibuted host.

... hrm...