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Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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Oof, I had to delete my Nextdoor account after witnessing that same kind paranoia (with a hint of racism). The last post I read that caused me to delete my account was about an elderly woman complaining about a brown guy taking pictures of his own car on a public street. (It seemed like he was putting it up for sale, after looking at the photo "evidence" and he obviously was the owner.) When I commented it was that i…

Yeah, but is it really Nextdoor that feeds this paranoia or is it just the true face of american suburb, that some, more secure feeling americans, like yourself weren't aware of?

I wouldn't call a self selected vocal minority the 'true face' of anything.

There have always been 'get off my lawn' types, predating nextdoor. Nextdoor is also not heavily used in every single neighborhood across america.

Even this conversation thread is driven by the selected group of people that participate in the specific social network in question.

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Not just people, a lot of the fault is on mods. Talk about Epsteins "suicide" on /r/conspiracy, and get autobanned from a bunch of subreddits, you've never even heard of before.

Interesting so how deep does the conspiracy go? Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes?

> Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes?

No, just the ones that were linked to u/maxwellhill, the lead moderator of r/worldnews, r/politics, and r/technology:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-M...

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…

Deleted my account when 5G hysteria came to town. I’d rather stick with waves and good mornings, and not know what my neighbors are thinking.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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My only interaction with Nextdoor these days is @bestofnextdoor on twitter. I highly recommend this arrangement. https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor

Those are mild. In my nextdoor feed, there’s an elderly woman who angrily replies to every post telling them to stop emailing her. She apparently doesn’t know how to turn off notifications. People have tried to help but I guess she doesn’t read the replies either.

Not sure if Amazon still does this but when someone asked a question about a recently purchased item you’ll get an email with their question. A lot of times the response is something like “I don’t know quit emailing me” or something similar.

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This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…

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Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…

Ugh. Tell me about it. There was some poor lost delivery driver in a McHouse subdivision about near me. In one hand she was holding a plastic bag with food containers, and the other she was holding a phone. Two people posted video/photos of her clearly looking at house numbers. Both people posted "be on the lookout for this suspicious person casing the neighborhood" posts. Like, come on. How stupid do you have to be.

I mean if I was an enterprising criminal that's a whole lot less conspicuous than a white panel van with "Bob's plumbing" on the side.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…

That specific creeping behavior is hilarious. Several years ago, my daughter and I found a lost dog clearly a family pet near our home near a busy road. We trapped it in our shaded yard and went around with some quick flyers to find the owner as we knew it was one of 30 homes. Multiple people revealing as little of their eyes as possible through blinds and curtains became funnier and funnier. (Eventually we found the…

It's really tragic that people are that afraid of their neighbors. I'm blessed to live in a neighborhood where we all wave at each other and talk for 5-10 minutes when we see each other on morning jogs or walkin' the dog.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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This seems like the least of the negative impacts nextdoor encourages. i removed myself after months of watching people on this app become more and more paranoid, feeding off each other. the breaking point was when someonea put out a warning that someone had knocked on their door at 7:00pm, “the wife and i were eating dinner when the rude knock came. we crept over to the window, peeked out, and didn’t recognize the p…

Brings to mind "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok27k6bX-Yc&list=PLPIowqjlFO...

The hyper-vigilence this app creates has turned one of my friends into the worst kind of person.

Re: WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?

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It's a consequence of having our software run on other peoples computers. 20 years ago it wasn't really an option because most software was installed and pushing updates was hard, but now everything can be updated without the user even knowing. IME there's a lot of people on HN that will even defend this sort of A/B testing. This is why I like debian, I never open an app to find out the entire UI is changed while I w…

If only it were that easy... - Mandatory software updates can change UIs that run on """your""" machines. - I still remember when I was running Debian Unstable, the day I ran a routine upgrade which replaced GNOME 2 with GNOME 3, I couldn't find my way around, and couldn't even easily revert because Linux distributions ship all their software in synchronized packages with interdependencies, and aren't built around pi…

You chose to run software with "unstable" in the name, when there is a free "stable" version you could use instead. You opted in to unexpected, disrupted changes
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