Mildly off topic, but is there a federated marketplace platform? If not, seems like it’d be a good addition to the fediverse. We need all our platforms to be enshitification resistant.

Craigslist, but worse

I have been using FB and IG for more than 15 years, mainly as a promotion channel for my books and my art - with modest impact on my success. The quality of the content has been going down steadily. I started exploring the dark corners of Facebook and was shocked by the right wing, fascist posts and Russian propaganda. Last October, I pulled the plug, I left Facebook, I left Instagram, and I’m just in the process of leaving WhatsApp. Liberating!

Facebook is the place you go to plan building a road with your neighbours and to adopt puppies. Other than that it’s all just AI slop