Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name

Comments

• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Caught between sympathizing with a Facebook Group moderator and a scummy trademark enforcer. I hate 2025.

  source

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    FB and its inevitable relationship with authoritarian governments is the problem.

    Just being on Fedi is being part of the free-speech (and in this case, beer) solution.

    source
• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I miss Freecycle.

  source

  • theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was honestly really put off when some old guy nabbed a ton of stuff I had on there so that he could sell it all at his church’s fundraising auctions. Like, I’d rather not throw it away but eww.

    He was almost always the first to respond to my posts when I was trying to downsize.

    source

    • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I did not always give to the first person to respond.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was good, but I always had a real problem with people not turning up. I think that because it was free, it led some people to think that it didn’t matter if they didn’t pick it up. If you stick it on eBay with a small price, it will be collected.

    source

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And this is why I always mark stuff on Facebook Marketplace with like a $5 price tag. I fully intend on giving it away for free, but the small price weeds out all of the people who only sort by “Free” and mass message every single poster.

      source
    • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It has its issues sure. But was overall a great platform. I made some life long friends from it too.

      source
• RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wow. What assholes. I’ll never use their app.

  source
• Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Mutual aid” is not trademarked and if anyone attempts it I’m going postal.

  source
• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why? I dont like reading articles

  source

  • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The “Buy Nothing Project”, a group that started the fad, is asking Facebook to take down groups using their name.

    The “project” makes money off buy-nothing exchanges through their app.

    Shitty company being shitty, and Facebook facilitating the shit.

    source

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So, trademark infringement?

      source
• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller have been added to the Menu.

  source
• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

  source
• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I realize this leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths, but I see this as a company trying to rightfully protect it’s blah blah, and a bunch of groups that kinda bent the rules in a well-intentioned way, and now have to click the Settings button in FB and rename their groups. Yes the company could have done things differently but they didn’t, most companies are internal gong shows and any working human knows that. Ok, do we need to huff and puff about this? Life carries on, and nobody still knows about or uses, or will use, the offical BN app lol

  source