Goddamn some people need to seriously chill tf out
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.
Meanwhile the one I was in out in the country was all potlucks and ‘how do I do this?’ and notes on roaming pets (neighbor had a Great Pyrenees that loved to visit everyone on the mountain).
I wonder if the madness cuts in at a certain density.
I think its moreso that people in more rural/wilderness regions have far more reasons to use that type of app. Meanwhile some dude in the suburbs of LA is more likely using it out of boredom at best, basically the less general utility it has the less sane it gets.
Also, you can’t really advertise a “potluck” in a larger town. Randos are just going to come and grab food and leave.
The problem with Nextdoor is that you can’t exclude the angry loud people who detract from the neighborhood. For a real potluck, you just don’t invite them. Your friend group should not be open by default.
There’s a lady that pops up on mine because she replies to anyone’s post within 20 miles with unhelpful and unsolicited advice. I call her Peggy Hill.
I suggest you give her a copy of How to be helpful and solicited; it might save someone’s life.
I live 2 towns over and I’m staying 2 towns over from that nutter.
Had no idea people were like that before Nextdoor.
I mean, there’s always been busybodies and people with way too much time on their hands that spend their days peering out the window too much and making up weird fantasies about what goes on outside. ND just gave them a platform to share their crazy with other people that are just as nuts.
They used to have to listen in on the party line and then call all their “friends” to spread the fresh gossip they just heard. A time consuming process but that doesn’t really matter when you have nothing else to do.
One thing the Internet, social media in particular, has done very well is expedite the spread of bullshit. Now the busybodies and gossips of the world can generate drama in record time.
Haha my mom has told me stories of their local party line, sounds wild.
And yeah, it’s given everyone their very own megaphone, for better or worse. I think the only thing we can hope for is that social media loses it’s appeal in it’s current centralized form and people return to more spread out online communities, though that might be a pipedream.
Yup. The proverbial “talking over the back fence” gossip now has instant, world-wide reach.
I didn’t know you lived in my area!
NextDoor is on the next level of paranoia and fear-mongering. There is a lady in my that posts about “gunshots” like every other day. We live in an ultra-safe suburban neighborhood, and I can assure you there are no gunshots. She is far from the only crazy person on there.
NextDoor is a really cool idea for a website. I joined hoping to find local activities, and social groups that I’d fit into. Instead, all i found was people arguing about trump. What the hell is wrong with people online these days?
I love reporting political posts.
In our Seattle neighborhood, we call people out for being political. It’s pretty tame here, believe it or not.
A lot of lost pets though, so it’s sad to scroll through.
This is what happens when technology is made super easy to use and convenient - every idiot imaginable will use it. Adding even a minor technical barrier to entry will limit the stupid. Like the equivalent of adding a floor-to-ceiling turnstile to the door. You know, the ones made of horizontal bars that look like they want to eat you. A minor requirement of technological comprehension will filter out a lot of idiots. Lemmy kinda works on a similar principle.
By me there’s a post a month of a photo asking if it’s a wolf wandering the neighborhood. When it’s not a fox, it’s a stray poodle. We’re 25 miles from NYC.
It’s the name of an app/website/email spam service.
Or just touch grass badumtss
I used ND for about one minute. All the posts were full-tilt Fox News terror about teenagers walking down the street laughing or some equally trivial thing. It really makes me sad that this is the headspace people are in about their neighborhoods and communities; it’s no wonder everyone’s so bitter, angry, and lonely.
“A car I never saw before parked at my neighbor’s house. Should I call the cops?”
“Some young hooligan was banging on my door and I was terrified for my life! I think they were on drugs!”
Meanwhile, the Girl Scout trying to sell cookies walks away sadly.
I haven’t seen a GS troop going door to door for years. They’re smarter than that; they just post up outside the weed dispensaries now and prey on those affected by the dreaded munchies.
I got a week ban for being sarcastic, they said if I apologize and promise to be nice I could come back on. I said please make it permanent and never send me notifications.
My town is wholesome apparently. There is no drama on nextdoor.
teenagers walking down the street laughing.
Nextdoor sounds like localized Facebook on PCP.
With a very real chance to accidentally run into these people in real life !
There were a couple in my neighborhood that I was hoping to run into so that I could punch them in the mouth. I doubt they really lived in my neighborhood though. They seemed like they were professional trolls, paid to sow dissent among Americans.
People using Next Door have the most garbage takes about anything
4th of July, New Years and Fiesta, the fireworks freak outs are inevitable. Or my favorite is the bitching about a music venue that’s been there longer than they have.
If you move in next to a music venue, you kinda know what you’re getting into. Can’t blame anyone but yourself
But when you’re home, you are within reason for wanting to control the confines of that space. I understand that people who are more extroverted than me will make more noise on weekends or special days, so I don’t care. But I also don’t blame people for wanting quiet spaces, the world is constantly loud and stimulating. Your home doesn’t have to be (if you like the quiet).
People move into houses in airport flight paths and then complain about fucking noise, from the international airport that has been operating longer than they’ve been alive. People are fucking stupid.
I once saw a lady walking around town with a bag occasionally making symbols on the sidewalk with white powder. My main reaction was how cool it was to have witches active in the neighborhood.
The people doing USA markings must have gotten a budget cut
What century is this?
The century of cheap dogma and expensive schooling.
Ohhhhh, I like that one.
Twenty-first but we live in a Monty Python sketch.
I used to make “dollies” out of them. I used to make them at work too out of all the plastic wraps I had to pull off new cutlery when we put those out. My old boss finds one and asks “what’s this?!” I told him “its witchcraft” as I hated the little shit.
The grass is Bromus sterilis :)
Latin for “sterilized bro” 😱
Why is “next door” capitalized?
Because it’s a name.
Oh is this some kind of website? I assumed it was literally the dude’s next door neighbour
It’s like Facebook, but you only see posts from people geographically near you. Expect lots of lost pet posts, and drama over people not picking up after their horses when riding trails that have an easement over someone’s driveway, but oh noes the homeowner should get over themselves because they chose to live in a rural area so they should expect horse poop in their driveway and it’s good non-stinky fertilizer anyway, but oh noes etc. So much drama.
So it’s like grindr for karens
Yeah. I remembered the topper: the horse people were totally coming back with shovels to clean up the dung but the homeowner cleaned up before the horse people could, and so it’s still the homeowner’s fault.
Me too don’t worry
LOL , start weaving little dolls too
Blair Witch vibes
Doing God’s work
Watch as I work my gypsy magic,
Eye of a newt and cinnamon,
Watch how matter turns to batter,
Open the portal, jump in.
Some of my grass grows a little long, and there are vines that will grow literally 3 foot overnight.
When I use my trimmer, the grass and vines can twist like that around the string housing.
I think my neighbor is a witch, maybe u should give those to her?
