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A decentralized marketplace would honestly be pretty sick as long as they can figure out how to ensure people don’t’t get scammed
“Sick” as in “slick?” “Good?” (Going to add “clueless oldster” to the description on my BH profile page).
Along the lines of a “Fediverse Amazon”, @petrescatraian@libranet.de told me about flohmarkt, which does look interesting. One of its instances can be viewed here.
Sick mean cool or awesome. I guess
One note on “sick” being slang for “good”: that particular slang started in the 80s, and some of the younger generation consider it to be old person slang.
So I’m even older than I thought?! 😱
IMO we need to break it in a few independent but cooperating decentralized systems;
If these systems are available, it would be possible to implement additional decentralized services like;