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Nextdoor and other neighborhood apps are really eye-opening about how paranoid a lot of people are.
So much "This man came to my front door to try to break in!" when it's clearly a door-to-door salesman. And then there's always that one responder that implies they would've had their gun ready...
I had to stop using Next Door entirely.
I set my neighborhood up years ago because I thought it was just a fantastic idea for a place to reach out to people who actually live near you. Reality has not borne that out.
ND seems like the place to go if you hate yourself and your neighbors and you really want everyone to know about it. It was like 70% busybodies and paranoid old people, 20% lost pet reminders, and 10% people being horrible to each other via the comments on the other 90%.
Also, I am now painfully aware of how much people hate the homeless. Just loathe and despise them for the crime of existing; while blissfully unaware that it’s just because they’re scared of how close they are to being homeless themselves.
What keeps me checking every so often is the 1% of the time that it's actually something that people are concerned about.
Like a legitimate garage/car break in, or "Hey, does anyone know who we contact to deal with ___"
I think getting the moderator mails was just too much. Like it’s a platform filled with people racing to the bottom and you get to see all the worst as a direct feed.
I don’t know how Reddit mods do it.