Possibly a dumb question, but is there, or could one of the extra smart people here build, a federated marketplace to allow for direct buying and selling without the middle-man enshittification of ebay, reverb, and the like?
Possibly a dumb question, but is there, or could one of the extra smart people here build, a federated marketplace to allow for direct buying and selling without the middle-man enshittification of ebay, reverb, and the like?
There’s a bit of discussion at the old place but it is defying my attempts to link to it (try Googling “Fediverse eBay” and you get a thread on r/Monero.
There’s bitejo and there was OpenBazaar. It may be possible to take the code from the latter and bolt on ActivityPub. Or look at Bonfire’s Value Flows.
It should be technically possible but it’s everything else that would be a headache - how you’d operate without huge overheads or breaking all sorts of consumer laws, for starters.