Comment by skillina
16 hours ago
I maintain Meta accounts for two purposes. Facebook Marketplace, and following local businesses on Instagram because it's become the de facto platform for many artists/bars/restaurants/popups to distribute information. I don't add friends, I don't "like" posts, and I don't doomscroll the garbage they put in my feed.
I'm willing to give Meta the information that I enjoy old cars, bar trivia, and breakfast sandwich pop-ups.
The instagram thing is annoying. Like the primary to find out about social events in my city seems to be Instagram. Yoga teachers post their schedules there, bars/venues post their events there, reddit is often an afterthought and still I'd prefer something else. But what??
What does facebook marketplace have over craigslist?
> What does facebook marketplace have over craigslist?
Users.
In Portland, Oregon area Craigslist was popular, but is now a ghost town. Everybody has moved to Facebook marketplace.
Locally, craigslist was never a thing. I cross-post everything I sell to Facebook and Kijiji, but I get an order of magnitude more sales from my Facebook posts. (And Kijiji has gated certain categories behind a paywall, so e.g. I can't post a $20 car part without paying $5 for the ad.)
in my region (middle east) facebook marketplace is the defacto listing. I know craiglist (just from me being on internet for so long) but i don't think it operates here. And for sellers they also only know facebook.
Listings and audience.