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So Long OfferUp, It Was Fun While It Lasted
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Well, there's one, but it requires dealing with an exceedingly shit company, so uh, not really?
Bummer. Guess I'll have to see what Craigslist is looking like nowadays. I haven't been there in a couple of years.
Like everything else on the internet, absolute shit I'm sorry to say.
The spam problem exists there, and if it's not spam, it's more than likely a complete scam.
I've quit trying to buy used stuff online outside of ebay (because, if nothing else, the level of interaction is much lower and if it's a scam then you've got actual protections) and totally given up selling anything online anymore and just throw everything I don't want away becasue I don't want to deal with the headache of selling shit on these platforms.
The last try was a computer on Facebook marketplace which did, eventaully, sell: after something like 60 people asked questions and 4 or 5 people flaked out. It was very much not worth the $150 or whatever.