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Is Craigslist Dying? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I went to Craigslist in my local area for the first time in awhile. I used to like “best of” Craigslist because some of them were great, there still are some, but its just not the same. A community I used to visit had about half the number of posts as I remember, and of jobs and things for sale, I would say roughly half the posts are just bottom feeding companies autoposting one post a day.

Is Craigslist going to be another web 1.0 app that just dies off? Is it the same in your area?

Craig himself is long since retired from doing stuff and they never seemed to be interested in working with other apps because most of them just scrape and don’t add value to CL, but the Fediverse can, if there was a filter for the spam. What do you think?

#craigslist #fediverse #federation

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fighting off bots and scrapers has become a huge problem for every site on the internet.

It's not surprising that a site that has kept a web 1.0 ethos and style hasn't updated the back-end to more appropriately deal with these types of attacks.

Further, craigslist functioned on not needing a ton of moderators for the whole shebang. Keeping it simple allowed costs to be low.

The bot armies have changed that calculus, now you need a ton of well-paid moderators to make it functional, and I would suspect a site like Craigslist simply doesn't pull enough income to be able to justify those sort of costs.

So instead, it will wither and rot on the vine.