Same. I deleted my account in like 2018.

Since then Marketplace has more or less destroyed Craigslist. So two months ago I tried to create an account strictly for Marketplace. My email, phone, and location have all changed since 2018. Despite verifying phone and doing the most extreme KYC step of taking a picture of myself with my ID I still could not make a new account. So maybe they should focus on that?

SAD! Craigslist was a much better product and community even without the luxury of identity verification. It had some obvious spam but by and large worked fine once you got the hang of it. Marketplace is a cesspool of lowballers and sex workers with some shitty ML sprinkled on it, underneath it all some slow and clunky RPCs that need refresh all the time.

Forget about the sucky product. Who has Facebook been hiring in the past decade that built that technical crapshoot.

It is what it is. It's a hotspot for local politics, so quitting it isn't really an option for me.

It's also the marketplace in some countries. Wanna sell some furniture locally? It may be close to the only option.

Just wait until they release a job board. They’ll figure this out soon.

They tried this years ago, but didn't make it work.

Yeah, but same story with the marketplace. There’s a lot of hourly jobs that need to be filled. Restaurant jobs really…

All the burning man camps I get invited to are a bunch of Gen X-ers conferring on Facebook groups

so I wind up making a new Facebook account once a year for a few months

although could see this moving to Discord across those same age ranges, I’m in some local groups there which overlap with festivals/events/things like the burn.

Yeah younger millenials and GenZ tend to do this sort of conversation on Discord.

yeah exactly, its now a better platform and has enough critical mass. With Nitro/Discord's paid plan you can change your profile per server if you identify different ways in different groups

I've seen Gen X-ers be notoriously inflexible about considering Discord or anything besides Facebook Groups, but as they say: nobody can prevent you from becoming like your parents

I tell that cohort "you can't Google this, you have to join the platform and search that channel", and they balk as if their Facebook Group that's segregating them is any different

back to burning man specifically, at this point it seems like I can get invited to different camps, so I'm excited about that. mixed age groups, stays fresh

Every Xer I know left FB years ago.

> I've seen Gen X-ers be notoriously inflexible about considering Discord or anything besides Facebook Groups, but as they say: nobody can prevent you from becoming like your parents

Yeah I'm a millenial with older and younger friends. I found that around 35 +- 4 years you generally have people get more annoyed and flippant at change. I get it, at this age you're probably at the peak of both career and life responsibilities, and you want to focus your energy on your family/career/other loved ones, and the last thing you want to do is learn something new for doing what you've been doing for the last 18 years (chatting about something online.)

But it's been pretty fascinating watching the change as my older millenial/young GenX friends are getting into Back In My Day conversations while my GenZ friends talk about new fashions and music.

It’s amazingly bad. My feed is just endless blatantly obvious engagement bait, interspersed with occasional posts from people I actually want to see.