> I feel like they missed opportunities to replace Craigslist as the de facto online classifieds and to offer a payment system like Apple Pay. Perhaps these are

> I feel like they missed opportunities to replace Craigslist as the de facto online classifieds and to offer a payment system like Apple Pay. Perhaps these are only obvious in hindsight I think they're trying to rectify both of these exactly. I don't know about in the US but here in the UK, Facebook Marketplace is pretty much now the de facto online classifieds site, at least for everybody I know. As for payments, they seem to be struggling more, but that is, I assume, one of the purposes of Diem (formerly Libra).