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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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No one is saying you cannot have a good German name. Uber is an American company. Shit company but great name. Comes from German and translates to other linguistic communities fairly well

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Uber isn't a German word tho?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Etymology From German über (“above”, preposition), which is also used as a prefix (über-); cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche's use of the word Übermensch. Doublet of over, super and hyper.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uber

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Something, something über alles...

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

über? which you'd spell ueber, if you can't type ü