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Facebook marketplace has surprisingly large number of listings and in my country not even dedicated marketplaces can come close

Facebook marketplace killed or vastly reduced the size of other marketplace platforms in many countries. Strangely it also seems like the amount of fraud rose as people moved to Facebook Marketplace. I guess it was easier for scammers to work on Facebook, needing only one platform to commit fraud in multiple countries, rather than attempting to work on hundreds of local sites.

What a coincidence, I use it as a market for buying lightly used items.

Provide wildly different features: get everybody hooked on a different feature.

That's the trick with these social systems. They don't care about the features each person dislikes or doesn't use.

> Social media is dead to me

You know, HN is social media.

Actually I don't think there is a single definition of social media but some countries/juridictions created their own for legal purposes and for most of them hn would not be considered a social media for various reasons: - no discovery of users - no subscription of users content - no private/direct messages