Re:The Buy Nothing Project
by JeremyNT on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:10PM
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Yeah, sadly this is a nonstarter for me due to this. Perhaps somebody will expand the idea outside of the Facebook ecosystem, but I'm not about to sign up for Facebook just to give this a try.
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Re:The Buy Nothing Project
by davidclark22 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:46PM
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I built https://www.giftingproject.org for this. I quit Facebook last year but missed the Buy Nothing group.
When I initially typed in my zipcode and smacked Enter, nothing happened. At all.
I tried again with a neighboring zip, but this time I hesitated for a moment to make sure I entered it right, and the search box did a weird thing where it popped down an expanded city name along with the zip code. I clicked this and THEN smacked enter, and I got a search results page!
Of course there are no results in my area (and no way to tell how large a radius it considers "my area"; should I try again with a zip a few miles away? a few dozen miles away?), but now I know there's a secret-knock to get into the site.
Re:The Buy Nothing Project
by animal_spirits on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:02PM
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There are similar groups to find on https://freecycle.org/
Re:The Buy Nothing Project
by audiometry on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:56PM
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yeah killed it for me. I use free cycle. It doesn't have the social/bilateral aspect, but I prefer that to zuckerberg.