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651 points openchampagne | 8 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.984s | source | bottom
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cleverwebble ◴[04 Feb 25 16:48 UTC] No.42934914[source]▶
I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. I didn't really realize this until when I used it to create an event for a house party... I was somewhat surprised that only 2 people out of 15 even saw it. I ended up resorting to good old text message and that worked, but it was tedious. Not sure how popular this will become, but having a social-media-less event invite/broadcasting system would be nice, and having one that most people with an iPhone have access to covers much of my friend base
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1. throw0101d ◴[04 Feb 25 20:51 UTC] No.42938432[source]▶
> I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook.

Marketplace seems to be one of the main use cases that's still relatively popular.

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2. smackeyacky ◴[04 Feb 25 21:07 UTC] No.42938701[source]▶
It's also the only bit of Facebook that hasn't turned into an endless stream of trash. I expect that not to last either, if you're looking for an idea then a localised marketplace alternative with social proof should be on your radar.
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3. 2muchcoffeeman ◴[04 Feb 25 21:10 UTC] No.42938749[source]▶
Marketplace and groups. Most of my friends are on WhatsApp so we ditched FB.

Apple would be smart to build those things and make it available on Android too. Then we could ditch FB altogether.

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4. joshstrange ◴[04 Feb 25 21:19 UTC] No.42938893[source]▶
Yep, groups was essentially all I used FB for until we moved to Discord (which much better for us), I was so glad when I could stop checking FB completely.
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5. gs17 ◴[04 Feb 25 21:23 UTC] No.42938941[source]▶
It still has a lot of trash, but 90% of it is trash you experience as a seller. Scammers are still really common, and I doubt the moderation has gotten much better since I failed to sell an empty aquarium because they couldn't be convinced it didn't have fish in it (although based on everything else on Facebook, there probably is just no moderation now).
6. 2muchcoffeeman ◴[04 Feb 25 21:24 UTC] No.42938953{3}[source]▶
It’s the community and interest groups that are really hard to migrate. There needs to be an easy migration route or something.

Other wise FB is really garbage. Just irrelevant suggestions and no amount of blocking trains the algorithm since they are just trying to make money.

7. pkamb ◴[04 Feb 25 21:29 UTC] No.42939045[source]▶
For a long time they were heavily promoting "Ships to You" non-local goods. Annoying. Lots of dropshipper type stuff rather than a local unique items. Marketplace seems to have backed off that in the last year(s) though, my feed seems very local, one-off, and "real.
8. wenc ◴[05 Feb 25 01:04 UTC] No.42941957{3}[source]▶
Problem with Discord is you have to enforce real names otherwise you have to limit it to people you know.

Young people I know (except for gamers) find Discord a bit sus because you don’t have any baseline with regard to name or profile pic. Also who already knows who. Discord doesn’t expose any social network outside of the specific server.

You would think Discord would be the community of choice for Gen Z but in reality it’s limited to gamer and gamer adjacent folks.

Turns out identity and known social network are still things people look for to achieve a base level of trust for real time chat.

Reddit and HN are more topic driven, but chat somehow feels more personal.