As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

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[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can use gpg signatures

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That wouldn’t really solve it though. The problem is not a man in the middle attack. It’s someone scamming you. They can do it, then generate another signature, repeat, etc.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Web of trust - did you hear? https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x547.html

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

So you only trade with people in your web of trust? That’s not feasible. People flock to these websites to trade with strangers. You don’t need a middleman to trade with people you already trust.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Friend of friend networks, that's how classmates have benefits created ( a prototype to "prove" 6 connections theory )

[–] me@chrichri.ween.de 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

@acockworkorange@mander.xyz

#flohmarkt is a tool to publish content in the form of a small ad / classified ad: on other fediverse services it scrolls by in the timeline. On a flohmarkt site it sticks in its place like a slip of paper containing a note on some bulletin board.

People can offer or search for services or goods. The federation radius irl across different flohmarkts can be limited by a distance setting.

Primary goal is to help people meet and exchange services, goods, opinions.

https://chrichri.ween.de/articles/dca424d/flohmarkt-a-federated-small-advertisement-server

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

I think you replied to the wrong comment chain, but thanks for info.