Where I’m from we have an alternative website to Craigslist that has many, many more scammers and time wasters than marketplace. At least marketplace has your actual name and face tied to the account.

Not to say that those problems don’t exist on marketplace for me, just that it is the place where they are the least bad.

Probably they’ll try to bring back features that cause people to interact more publicly, like poking. No way sponsored posts and ads are going away. For me it is an unusable app, way too little organic content on there. Marketplace is great though.