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Later they opened things up to maybe 5000 "nearby" neighbors, 1% of which I know. That totally changed the dynamic.
And yes, a few dozen who dominate every discussion. No thanks.
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I live in a suburban area where you cannot get a house under $2 million. It is extraordinarily safe. Yet if you read the NextDoor it seems like 1970s New York, with crime and danger around every corner. Eyeball-oriented media always algorithmically boosts sensational news, which simply doesn’t reflect reality. Traditional print media, which would be owned by an independently wealthy elitist family, didn’t need those…
We had a post with short video of a 'suspicious white car, casing the neighborhood' several days in a row at 4am. A dozen posts about how things are going to hell, etc, followed by a post: Hi mark, it's my car. I've delivered your newspaper every morning for 5 years now.
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We had a post with short video of a 'suspicious white car, casing the neighborhood' several days in a row at 4am. A dozen posts about how things are going to hell, etc, followed by a post: Hi mark, it's my car. I've delivered your newspaper every morning for 5 years now.
What happened after that? That sounds like the beginnings of a really great movie about an unexpected duo becoming friends.
NEXTDOOR IS AWESOME WE HAVE SOME NEIGHBOURS IN RURAL COLORADO THAT MOVED FROM NEW YORK OR SOMEWHERE LIKE THAT AND THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE ANIMALS IT WAS LIKE LIVING IN A ZOO THEY SAID OTHER NEIGHBOURS SAIDTHEY COULD MOVE BACKJ TO NEW YORK IF THEY DIDNT LIKE ANIMALS AND THEY SAID SORRY AND THEY DIDNT KNOW ANIMALS LIVED IN THEMONTAINS AND THEY GOT A CAMERA AND EVERYTHING WAS OK
Forgive my ignorance but who uses something like Nextdoor? Is it used mainly in suburban communities? I could never imagine anyone using it in any of the urban centres I have lived in.
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Many places have exactly zero local daily papers. My town had a labor of love for a few years before the publisher fell ill. Now there's basically nothing unless something is big enough to hit a more broadly targeted audience. So Next Door/Facebook. (7K person town.)
How is the quality of news sources for your area that you find on facebook? I try to get as little news from fb as possible.
So I rely more on FB. Follow all the local government agencies. Every one of them has an FB page. That gives a rough idea of what's going on. Comments on those pages are usually uncensored. Most of the comments are in agreement or cranks, but sometimes you get a nugget of truth that goes against whatever the agency said. That's been especially valuable in the pandemic. My local health agency hasn't behaved well, and the critics with inside knowledge frequently comment.
There's also local groups for my zip code that help piece together what happened. Another good, though often overlooked source, are pages from members of the opposition party. In my area, that's unsurprisingly the Democrats. They'll frequently highlight what's going wrong locally.
All of this doesn't replace the value created by a local paper that's willing to at least occasionally be critical or investigative. But it's much better than either nothing, or relying solely on the in-person gossip from neighbors. Pity it has to be on Facebook, but there isn't an alternative. Nextdoor in my area is pretty much worthless.
I don't remember local or small-town papers to [generally] being toxic or cesspools of hate. However, one of my True Jokes is "NextDoor: Hate Your Neighbors" just as "Facebook: Hate Your Family & Friends" and "Twitter: Hate Your Heroes". NextDoor sounds good, but it generally proves not. Everything from "suspicious teenagers on the sidewalk again" [meaning: local kids walking to their local home from the local school…