As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

God... remember how fucking simple craigslist was when it hit it's peak? The fact that Grandpa could take a shaky flip phone picture and post a thing you needed right around the corner, no fat or other frivolous horseshit...

Craigslist is still simple last I checked, but the user base left and now dominated by spam from retail and drop shippers masquerading as local people selling goods from their garage.

Nothing gold can stay

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

At least when I used Craigslist, there was no social network element to it, so it was difficult to determine the trustworthiness of any given poster.

For that reason, I don't want a Fediverse clone of Craigslist -- I want an existing Fediverse platform to add a marketplace. I will not use anonymous marketplaces.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If you feel any kind of meaningful trustworthiness from a Facebook profile, you've probably got some other things to worry about...

[–] nyamlae@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I don't agree? Even in big cities, I've often seen marketplace posts from people with mutual friends, so I could easily verify their trustworthiness. In other scenarios I can at least check to see if their posting history and/or profile seems legit or if there are any red flags. Having more data helps people decide whether to trust someone, but Craigslist doesn't allow for that.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Idk. It's still got some uses. My dad got a bunch of industrial refrigerator panels for stupid cheap off Craigslist like 6 months ago.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, you can still get something from the odd crank, but used to be much more practically useful for day to day needs.