Hey Fab, thanks for your response. Til now, we are having fun exploring every possible option to enable this marketplace to happen here. There are many more things @SN team could work on to accelerate this to happen, for example an Ad-post type, an image gallery, a featured image (like the job-post type has already) and DMs will be the cherry on the cake. A nostr integration will be the top... and I'm not the only one thinking about it. It will make SN become just a client, not responsible for anything displayed here. But as it is currently hosting the data on a centralized server... data it's (or will become) hot! I'm not expecting anyone to do all this, so in the meantime I'll just keep paying around.

These feature could radically improve the UX and enhance some of the trust needed to build a marketplace. Haven't personally the tech skills to submit pull request to the repo, otherwise I was doing that instead of writing with posts :)

The main friction, as you mentioned, has to come from the users. But the user(s) need to trust the community here, especially newcomers. The idea of @AG0RA bot wanted to do just that, create a place full of crap people can look at and sell. But obviously the original sellers were not here to interact with the possible buyers asking questions. It was nice to create an (king of) archive, useful probably to establish future subs.

Another major blocker is shipping, so let's just skip it and focus on P2P and geolocalized community content. This option thought it's risky for privacy, so probably the best is to focus (if you are a creator/seller) on digital products and services (for now).

There's so much more that need to be considered...anyway. I see SN as the perfect host for a marketplace, with an embedded payment method and a community that surround it... An ideal faceB marketplace alternative. But hey, we pay you in Bitcoin!