I think Facebook is fine? It's where most neighborhood/city groups seem to be, and it works as expected for this. Marketplace is also pretty good, with less scams than other similar platforms.
At this point, I always ask my AI tool of choice to audit the Github before installing an open-source tool, so I'm not that concerned about security.
I'm mostly hesitant to install vibe-coded apps because they sadly tend to be shiny but quickly-abandoned slop, with tons of bugs or performance issues.
The sort of product of a vibe coded app is just not that great in all. Giant codebase usually, have fun reviewing that.
These sorts of pre ai github abandonware projects were usually quite leanly written, did a simple thing and that's it. Feature complete, and easy to build upon yourself if you wanted to take it further.
I have tried a ton of stuff (Cloudflare, Anubis, fail2ban...) to combat the bots lately, but they all have their downsides, and users complained too much, so I just gave up. You simply can't win this arms race.
So I have resorted to performance improvements on my server and serving every single request. Things are way smoother now.
Tons of people click from ChatGPT! It's now the top referrer on most of my websites, and seems to be on path to overcoming Google soon (a ton of traffic from Google has vanished since the AI Overview rollout...).
I realized its much faster to do the "google thing" just with chatgpt. Its filters all the sh!t for you. Searching the net frustrates me most of the times this days. Search engines are software for an older generation of the www.
The slides they show in the catering video demo are so bad (in addition to having all the usual signs of AI design), I would genuinely laugh if a supplier sent me this.
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