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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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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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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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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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1. 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).