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Hey Lemmy. I hate Facebook. But I miss Marketplace. So I built Garage as a means to reclaim Melb's 2nd hand marketplace from Meta (cause fuck Zuck). It's pretty new but check it out below (getgarage.com.au)

submitted 1 week ago by pntha@lemmy.world to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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I built Garage as a side-project and have finally realised it into production. I'm just a dude working full-time, renting in Caulfield and out of pocket for it. But I'd rather pay to host Garage than have Zuck sell me. Your support means a lot!

Mods: I realise rule 5 says no ads. If this breaks it, I'll remove. I'm not really selling anything, just trying to give people a second option to Facebook.

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[–] Tau@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Something about their lack of filtering making it so you had to search through gobs of crap to find things

Marketplace is truly terrible when it comes to search filtering, so it probably was that. I've been trying to keep an eye out for a particular model of car and you simply cannot search for it on marketplace without getting results which are 99% other things. It can't even just return results for a particular make or model let alone basic characteristics like transmission type or drive type. The worst part is that we had this capability on places like carsales and gumtree but people decided they wanted to ignore all that and post ads on the most annoying option instead.