craigslist is dead, the news should be how marketplace quietly disrupted craigslist and the power of Meta integrating any product. if you're a B2C company and Meta decides to compete with you, you have no chance.
Legal practice is slow to adapt but we will see more and more cases against gate keepers and monopolists.
CL had a miserable mobile experience up until a few years ago, no good mobile app, and spam has always been a problem on the platform.
I loathe using FBMP, but it has been slowly absorbing all the CL traffic. On one hand, I like that CL charges for high value items now (ex: Cars) because it means you're getting better quality, but on the other hand it has absolutely hastened people's abandonment of CL for FBMP.
Now - FB is decidedly worse though. These walled gardens, I swear the spartan simplicity of Usenet was better than these.
meanwhile craigslist is just kinda ugly and any real spam is obvious and easy to ignore or filter out.
Quick search said classified ads were 40% to 70% of revenue.