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

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
    7•5 months ago

    I’ll never understand why people would rather use a worse interface, that requires an account, tracks everything you do, is full of ads, and is run by a sociopathic billionaire, rather than a really awesome free service with none of those things. Just because it has a slightly fancier UI? Well the UI doesn’t even work right half the time because they’ve completely re-engeered everything to get around browser security features. Whatever.