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Is Craigslist Dying? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like others here, facebook took over the market ..market in my area as well.

However, I think we can all agree Craigslist really died the second they removed the casual encounters section.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean the "totally not prostitution, for real you guys, I mean it, don't arrest me" section? Because that's why all the hookup and dating sections vanished. It was even in the news at the time.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The one time I went on that site for that reason was in the early 2010s, pre-tinder. The other person was real, but substantially less female than advertised. At least they were polite when I told them I wasn't interested?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At what point did you get the reveal? Did you have to meet in person first?

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We meet in person, thankfully in a very public place.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 5 months ago

Oh wow! That's rough. Least you got a good story out of it!