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by Arizhel 3407 days ago
>Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don't think they will.

Why "unfortunately"? This is a good thing. Facebook is horrible, in many different ways, and the last thing we need is to hand even more power over the internet to them. CL is "ugly", but it's fast and works great, and isn't filled with ads and tracking, something I definitely can't say about Facebook.
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mynameisvlad 3407 days ago
Real competition in general is good, it'd force both products to improve.
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itomato 3406 days ago
The only way Facebook could "improve" is to fade away completely.
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ianai 3406 days ago
I think facebook serves a purpose but I also agree with your statement. The last thing I want are more places relying on facebook. I deleted my facebook to get away from it. Huge "but" though: I did get value out of facebook when I was younger. It's for that reason that I think it's probably a good thing.

Of course...there's also the ever present threat of a new social network growing up with another generation.

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intended 3406 days ago
Theres loads of competition for CL. Internationally many people have cut in on that space.

I'd be more concerned that someone is going to use the likely roll back of NN in america to dethrone CL.

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unicornporn 3406 days ago
> Theres loads of competition for CL. Internationally many people have cut in on that space.

Correct. Here in Stockholm no one knows about CL (even if there is one for our city at https://stockholm.craigslist.se/). Just about all you can see there are some robot spam listings for medical cannabis.

Over here https://www.blocket.se/ has near monopoly position, even though it's quite expensive. They got here first, it's as simple as that. http://sv.shpock.com/ is trying hard to establish a presence, but it's seems to be going slow.

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