Drifting off topic, but I’m authorised to do so as I started the thread...
Re freecycle, I have never used it. But in collaboration with a few others, clearing a deceased’s home, we have used freecycle’s rival, freegle, to good effect. My impression is, freegle has a better reputation these days, UK at least. We had some good successes, with stuff that might have gone to landfill going to genuinely needy people.
Main problem seemed to be people who failed to show up at agreed time to collect, which was annoying if I’d made a special trip to meet them. Or people who showed up to collect (say) a large piece of furniture, then left empty-handed as they’d come alone and it was too heavy to move, and/or too big to fit in the tiny car they’d brought.