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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They are local listings for buying used stuff that that you might have not even have known you want before browsing the listing.

That is not how I nor anyone I know uses our listings on Kijiji. I go to look for specific things i don't want to buy new. I do not browse used stuff for sale. I've personally bought motorbikes 600km away because the search area has to be bigger for more niche items. I also set up the sale of a car to a guy 1800km away via kijiji.

I couldn't do either of these using flohmarkt, so it isn't really useful to me, federated or not.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Someone could set up a Flohmarkt instance specifically for motorbikes which would probably serve that niche better.

Classified pages are however not predominantly used like that, at least here.