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I stopped using Kijiji a long time ago and recently deleted my account. It's dead to me. FB Marketplace is one of the few reason why I still have my FB account.
I hope to find decent alternatives eventually in Canada.
It's probably not exactly what you're looking for but I use mercari in Japan to buy used things. Do they offer their services in Canada? I think they do in the US.
Kijiji has definitely declined over the years. The ads are bad, but I find the worst aspect is the amount of accounts on there that are just shops selling new products rather than people reselling their old stuff. It makes it very annoying trying to find second hand shit.
Karrot is nice
Too many people use the LLM generated caption feature, but that's a fault of the users than the platform itself.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to be profitable yet. They're from a South Korean company that seems to be doing the Silicon Valley "become ubiquitous while losing money then enshitify".
I would be interested as well. Varage Sale isn’t where it’s at either.
Federated would be interesting. I wonder if we can just have a Lemmy community for something like that?
Varage sale? You mean garage sales?
Nope. It’s an app
Strange name.. I'll check it out though. Thanks.
I feel like moderating something like that would be daunting. I'm not sure how quick mods would legally have to respond. Same as mods from the proprietary platforms I mentioned -- although they are not the same scale.
Does lespacs still exist? Was it used outside Québec?
Am I OOTL? What's wrong with kijiji? Isn't it Canadian?
Used to be owned by PayPal (eBay), but they were bought out a few years ago so I don't know what it is anymore.
But given their heavy use of Temu and some other ads, and formerly owned by PayPal, I'm happy to jump ship to something more ethical. And to jump ship to something not connecting with me random ad trackers.
sigh
Wow I didn't know about the ebay/PayPal bit. Looks like they are currently owned by Adevinta. Strange Adevinta don't have a Wikipedia page, but I'm seeing reports of being owned atleast partially by Blackstone 🤮.
Guess I will be searching for a replacement too.
Haven't seen ads anywhere in so long; I would highly recommend Firefox (librewolf on desktop, ironwolf on android for sane defaults) + ublock origin (its the one that actually works on Firefox based browsers).
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