Nextdoor is really a scary ridiculous app. It makes people into fascist little cops. They spy on everyone and take pictures of strangers (mostly Black and brown people) acting like they are crime fighters.
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The thing about Nextdoor is that it purports to bring people together but it's actually more disruptive and divisive than just going next door and fucking talking to your neighbor.
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I feel like I should go on monitoring ours for this crap but have had to take a break for my mental health. (Especially as events related to family’s mental health have shown up there.)
I get filmed in my own neighborhood walking my dog *all the time*. She’s a bully mix, but she’s not going to explode or anything. I’m not breaking into homes. I’m just walking the dog. Walking. The. Dog.
A stranger once saw me loading a gun case into my vehicle (I shoot pistols competitively) and tried to recruit NPR-supporting me for an armed militia “in case THE LIBS try anything.”
It’s just another thing that convinces people that crime is out of control. “Was that a gunshot?” No, dingdong, there’s a construction site 100 feet from your window, and it makes that sound every 11 minutes.
Yesterday’s topic was “I rescued a dog from a homeless man” and then 100 posts about how sometimes homeless people are bad to dogs, so it’s always totally cool to take their companions from them.
You also have to give a ridiculous amount of info to set up your account. I never verified my address when I lived on the UWS in NYC (was not about to send the info they required!), so I never got to see just how horrid it is (the whole reason why I wanted to join 🤣).
It really is. I only visit the site if I need a local recommendation or if I’m giving something away. I can’t fathom how people spend time on that app.
You know all those "In this house" yard signs? I want a neighborhood where the signs are more about not having f'ing Ring cameras and not using Nextdoor and actually interacting with one another beyond when someone first moves in.
A Karen enabling website where they stalk pets going down the street with no owner, complain and take pictures of litter without picking it up, and natter on incessantly about absolutely nothing.
I used to get cheap laughs from the hysterical anecdotes on it. Then I stopped laughing because I realized it was nothing more than a platform for racism, xenophobia and flat-out dementia/paranoia.
I only go on it when I want to see people debating how stealing Halloween candy or ding dong ditching is a direct pipeline to murdering your parents at 19.
I guess I'm glad I don't live in your neighborhood...sounds awful.
Our Nextdoor is just filled with people posting lost pets and complaining about fireworks. There is the occasional MAGAt conspiracy post, but it usually gets taken down pretty quick.
I did see one thread where someone asked if there were any kids around named Dylan, Brady, Liam, or Tanner who wanted to join the local YMCA youth basketball team because they were currently winning every game on score differential and having trouble finding opponents.
It sucks because there's a nugget of the functionality that could be used to just connect people who have moved to the neighborhood with others to do, idk, grill and chat or whatever. I don't care that someone lets their cat out to explore or the race of x family's babysitter, dude.
We got the Nextdoor postcards once and the person who triggered them was on our Facebook group going 'join join join protect our neighborhood' The replies gave me hope. They moved not long after 😂
Somehow our Facebook has started remarkably civil. So far.
Ours is just "Who stole my decorative rock?" and a lot of 🤷♂️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🤷🏻 in response.
Occasionally someone tries to flex like they're a wannabe fascist, but the neighbors shut that crap down really fast.
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I was in my own front yard… wearing a t-shirt from grad school… and an African tricolor headband I got at a Damian Marley show.
I’d owned the home since 2008.
The comments on the headband were priceless/overtly racist.
A stranger once saw me loading a gun case into my vehicle (I shoot pistols competitively) and tried to recruit NPR-supporting me for an armed militia “in case THE LIBS try anything.”
It’s insane here and only getting worse.
We’re leaving the state as soon as we have the $.
The fizzle at the end means it’s fireworks, people.
Other than that, it’s got no purpose
Our Nextdoor is just filled with people posting lost pets and complaining about fireworks. There is the occasional MAGAt conspiracy post, but it usually gets taken down pretty quick.
Somehow our Facebook has started remarkably civil. So far.
Occasionally someone tries to flex like they're a wannabe fascist, but the neighbors shut that crap down really fast.