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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] 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not where I'm at. Less young people have Facebook so will use other services like Craigslist. Yard sales are also popular.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Really? I thought facebook martketplace was the big one.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Young people don't use Facebook because it's full of old people just like what happened to MySpace and young people moving to Facebook because it was... full of old people.

TikTok went from being a Gen Z hangout to being filled with millennials who wanted to stay hip and young, and now young people are bailing on TikTok, too.

It always goes: Youth find cool space. Older youth want to stay hip and young and so populate youth space. Older youth quickly age up, soon making it a non-youth space. Younger youth leave to find a new cool space for youth. Some kind of Samsara.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i think millenials are one of the main demographics along with genz since the beginning no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah maybe, but we're 40 now.

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

Facebook is mostly scamers where I am. So I stopped using it.