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Meta lost 20 million users last quarter. First drop in daily active users since it started tracking the numbers in 2019 (www.socialmediatoday.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 66 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Every one one of my friends and family use it daily.

And a huuuuuge sell is marketplace. Literally no one touches Craigslist anymore. So if you wanna buy used from people, you literally need marketplace.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I used craigslist just last week, but yea marketplace is a big part of facebooks market reliance

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    "Literally no one?" My partner and I just picked up a couch from a couple thru Craiglist, all of us aged around 30 years old. We both love to read the Missed Connections posts on there. I agree that facebook's marketplace has a good hold on ubiquity at the moment, but nobody "literally" needs it.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    I was looking for a turntable recently and checked Craigslist religiously for several weeks trying to find a deal. All I saw was the same few overpriced antique stores using posts as advertisements, refreshing over and over to stay on top. What real posts I could find were priced at the same point as the antique stores, probably thinking that was the going rate.

    I was barely aware of Facebook Marketplace, but a friend recommended I check there too, and it had a bunch of actual fair deals. While Craigslist rarely had a vintage turntable for less than $300, I was immediately able to find 2 for less than $50 each on Facebook. I felt unclean while re-installing the Facebook app after nearly a decade, but I can't deny that it's better, at least for what I was looking for.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    literally is one of those words which has really lost it's meaning. yes I hate it.

    Regardless, how badly you want to use fb marketplace is highly regional and situational dependent.

    My partner and I have twins who are now almost 3 years old. I would estimate that the stuff we have bought and then later sold on fb marketplace for little or no difference in value would have cost about $6k or $7k per child if we had bought it new. Average full time wage here is about $1k per week, for reference.

    There just isn't another platform which has any significant userbase for toddlers gear here. There is something else you can use for cars or tools, but not toddlers stuff.

    Its true that without facebook marketplace we just wouldn't have bought a lot of the stuff that we did

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I sold my motorcycle 3 years ago and had at least 10 offers on it.

    I'll check CL every so often

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Which is also fucked, since the likelihood you have a legit transaction is low. The scammers are most active on marketplace.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    i cannot believe people literally don’t understand or remember how the world worked before the 4 companies took over their brains

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Amazing isnt it. The corporations have won. Us old fogies are deemed crazy and will be gone soon and the younguns will have no idea what they took from us.

    Its up to parents to teach their children to rage and be angered at what they've lost. And to get it back.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    seems old man yells at cloud but it’s true

    these companies have like 100 year plans - they know even if everyone hates what they do today, those people will die off and the new generation won’t know any better, since they have been seeped in it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Lol you do not need fb marketplace. Thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets are great for furniture. For everything else there's eBay. I've never bought anything on fb marketplace and I almost always buy used stuff.

    Stop making flimsy excuses. Stop giving this evil company your money.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Not here. Marketplace is insanely useful and saves me a lot of money.

    Thrift shops?? Garage sales?? They're shit now and WAY overcharge. Pawn shops are horrible. They want $300 for a VCR.

    However , I do not use Walmart or amazon, and I do not buy new cars. So I'm helping there at least.

    I can't leave anyway since all my friends are stuck in it and will never move. (Tech illiterate and scared of the dark web, as they call it)

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