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

The developers are always open for discussion on their IRC channel: https://web.libera.chat/?nick=GithubGuest%3F#flohmarkt

Please feel free to host a local instance for your city/town and invite friends and family to post. Flohmarkt relies on local relationships and pick-up items only rather than shipping stuff worldwide.

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    Depends on your native language.
    It’s German for flea market

    But yeah, I guess in English speaking countries it’s a bit hard to say ;⁠-⁠)

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      Because of the three hard consonants at the end and they all get pronounced? I mean the “Flohma” part shouldn’t be an issue… 😆

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        The point is not that it’s difficult to pronounce, but that the correct spelling is difficult to guess from the pronunciation (in English) and therefore the person recommending it in conversation must provide the spelling explicitly, which is annoying and likely to lead to confusion and failure to find the actual site.

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        Just pronounced like market, without the ‘e’
        Or like the name Mark with a ‘t’ at the end
        Or actually pretty much like ‘marked’, when you e.g. mark a word

        Maybe disregard the first 2 approximations, ‘marked’ is very much how it’s pronounced

        Edit: to complete this:
        You would say something like ‘flow marked’ and that would be very very near the correct pronunciation :⁠-⁠)

        Edit 2: the h is silent and only says, that the o before is longer. So just like you stretch the o in flow.