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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] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

But how? It fuckin sucks!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Critical mass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why you gotta be so critical about that mass? So negative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Critical mass is an expression in social network saying you have a sufficient population that the network is now self-sustaining. And you don't have to grow it externally. It's an expression borrowed from nuclear where critical mass of reactive material could self-sustain a reaction without any external stimulation

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To put a finer point on it... Everyone is using FB marketplace, including old ladies, rednecks, and the local illegals who barely speak english.

I hate FB, but I use it to buy, repair, and flip cars cuz it's the only place that has a broad view into things. Just as many scams as CL, but the UI is a little better.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

And I hate every one of you for jacking used car prices way the hell up for everyone so you can play half legal car dealer, while also making it hard as hell to even find a used car from a real owner of a vehicle instead of guys like you who owned it for a week and adding $2k to the price.

Last one I tried buying a guy listed it on a Sunday night. Like 7pm. I arranged to meet him Monday morning. But guess what? Guy showed up 7:45 pm with cash and bought it. Then re-listed it out of my price range.

[–] treadful 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just as many scams as CL, but the UI is a little better.

What a remarkable statement. Meta UI being better than bog standard Web 1.0. huh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I happen to prefer bog standard

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Because the Zuck was like

right, so we’ve got this huge captive audience. If we copy Craigslist and add like 1% more functionality, we can steal that whole market, and also have a decent shot at taking a bunch of the eBay (et al) market share too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Because all the normies are on there