I’m guessing the answer is “no”, but thought I’d ask for advice here regardless.

I don’t have FB. Haven’t for years. I ditched it long before I started giving a shit about Privacy, it’s just so toxic and silly.

That said, I’m a retro gamer constantly on the hunt for holes in my NES/SNES collection and unfortunately the folks in my area seem to be quite a bit more active on FB Marketplace than Craiglist, Offerup, or Nextdoor For Sale pages. In the past I’ve asked my spouse to message the seller for me and then show up with cash and buy what they’re selling. Increasingly, sellers are scared of scams and seem to be less responsive to this type of inquiry.

Is there anyway to minimize footprint in FB? Or perhaps a way to use Messenger without an account? You can browse the marketplace pages of your community without an account, but they’ll pester you the whole time and you can’t save your locale without signing in.

Or am I out of luck entirely? I thought about posting “In Search Of” type posts on Craiglists to bring the buyers to me, but my area has several of those already and I’m not after bulk lots or other platforms other than the old Nintendo stuff.

I do check Ebay as well and have found a few gems for decent prices and a local shop occasionally has some stuff that hasn’t been completely picked over, or i show up right after someone sells their collection and that’s rad, but that’s rare.

    • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      10 months ago

      I don’t have the first clue what you’re asking, bc of the previously mentioned title issue.

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        11·
        10 months ago

        It’s kinda funny you demanded higher journalistic standards from a Lemmy post, but you’ve taken a screenshot and written three replies… You could have just read beyond the first line by now

        • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          It’s a pet peeve of mine, sure it’s not a big deal if one person does it every now and then, but some people don’t seem to understand the concept of a title. Might as well just omit it altogether with titles like this.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        9·
        10 months ago

        So you read the title and tagline but ignored the body of the post?? Why would you tell anyone that let alone complain about it

          • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            I’m the guy who uses the emoji reactions that are built into outlook (for internal emails) to avoid anyone getting any more emails than they need to.

            It’s funny bc, it’s actually the fact that I try to be courteous to others and their time that things like shitty titles bug me.

        • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          I’m surprised people don’t get it. Disagreeing about me bitching about it makes sense, but to not understand my complaint at all is a surprise.

          I’m scrolling casually, see a text post, read the title to see what it’s about… decide if I want to click and read more. But I get this title…. Maybe the community it’s in will give me a clue what their topic is… not really.

          Most of the time I just keep scrolling, but for whatever reason I felt like pointing it out.

          OP failing to give even a hint as to the topic between the title (which exists specifically to convey the topic) and the beginning of the text as shown by my app…

          Look, they’d get more helpful interactions if they just used the title for the titles purpose. And those who don’t want to participate don’t have to read an indeterminable amount before realizing the content and being able to make an informed decision.