What's a few alternatives to Facebook Marketplace?
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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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.
What’s G7?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7
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.
TBH I'm not sure! But that's what pulled up when I looked it up myself...
Yeah, I wanted to avoid G7 or some regional websites since I would rather have one with a bit more global access.
Craigslist is still around
That's very north america focused.
There’s Flohmarkt
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.
Olio
Kijiji
Canada only