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

  • CRUMBGRABBEROP
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    195 months ago

    Craigslist was one of the examples of the potential of the early internet, where we could have nice things because all the users valued it. Its falling victim to enshittification even with no ads and no connection to big tech.

    • @Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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      15 months ago

      You have to pay to sell things on there now as well. Might as well use ebay or letgo or something like that.

      • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        When did that happen? I sold several pieces of woodshop equipment there in the past year and didn’t pay anything.

          • @lesbian_seagull@lemm.ee
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            15 months ago

            I hear ebay is testing no selling fees for individual sellers on most items, so there’s that possibility. They did it in Germany and it was a hit, so it’s slowly coming stateside I think.