Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s not really true.

  I live in a fairly small city. There might be other platforms but they’re not in common use.

  I can list a box of toddler clothes and they’ll sell in a week, while other platforms perhaps they won’t sell at all.

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• rothaine@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plenty of people have second-hand items to sell without using fb marketplace.

  Where? Craigslist has become a pit. eBay is not cost effective for large items that are expensive to ship.

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  • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t know where you are, but Kijiji is absolutely thriving in Ontario. My old man has about 40-50 items up at any given time, and has no problems finding buyers to rotate through his stock, and he is nowhere near a major population centre. I just looked at ads for a city centre and there is a lot available. It is definitely possible to work outside of facebook.

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    • rothaine@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Never heard of Kijiji. Looks to be Canada-only?

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      • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You know, I could swear you used to be able to pick countries in it. But all I can find now is kijiji.ca.

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