FB Marketplace has some insane network effects with vast listings. I can find very few alternatives for regions outside areas like G7. Would appreciate some good alternatives in this space.

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[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Craigslist is still around

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

That's very north america focused.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Upvoting. Pisses me off because I found alternatives (sadly in a G7 area so I cannot answer your question, closest things I know of for my G7 area is NextDoor which does have a decent amount of local participants but is not selling-focused, and BuyNothing which has basically no participants in my area) and they have so little usage, so if I want to participate in random-person-to-random-person selling I HAVE to use Meta's piece of shit. I'm usually not that aggressive and I usually don't namecall. I really hate Facebook.

I just will not participate. I am also lucky enough to be in a financial and material situation where I can middle finger them instead of being forced to use it because I am in desperate need of a cheap deal for some item quick.

Will investigate other options mentioned here, good question.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What’s G7?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental political and economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member". It is organized around shared values of pluralism, liberal democracy, and representative government.[1][2][3] G7 members are major IMF advanced economies.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it really what the OP referred to? I’d say “countries of the G7” not “areas like G7” of that was the case. I guess I got thrown off. Thanks.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

TBH I'm not sure! But that's what pulled up when I looked it up myself...

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I wanted to avoid G7 or some regional websites since I would rather have one with a bit more global access.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There’s Flohmarkt

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Interesting. Unfortunately, it seems to be mainly focused in EU and I am not interested in hosting and marketing a marketplace out of my own pocket at the moment.

[–] yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

Olio

[–] minusreflections@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kijiji

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Canada only