I use the nextdoor app for my neighborhood...

[Javaman]

it was once a place to talk neighborhood stuff, sell/give away stuff, get to know those around you, etc...

but now, since covid, it's become a cesspool of antivaxxers.

so many people I've had to mute to maintain my sanity.

it's really bad. so bad, that I might finally dump it all together.

how's been your experience?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. Nextdoor is a cesspool

I call it Suburban White Paranoia. Mine is all "why are there brown people walking down the street," "the homeless have wrecked our wonderful neighborhood and are spreading disease" and "Owls are eating our pets!"

Fortunately the few anti-vaxxers in mine are shut down pretty quick because the neighborhood moderator has no patience for it and removes their posts.

There is an option to report the posts for spreading anti-vaxx nonsense - I use that pretty liberally.

[we can do it]

10. Same here, and I get to vote.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. I keep it to see if stuff is available on the cheap, but a lot of gossipers and Ring camera paranoia

[DBoon]

2. I dumped it when it became innundated with 5G cnspiracy theories

Verizon putting up 5G antennas on a utility pole suddenly became a sinister plot.

[Sherman A1]

3. Occasionally useful

But rarely.

[raccoon]

23. Same here nt

[Demovictory9]

42. Agreed. Hear a siren..nextdoor would immediately tell us the fire/robbery/ car accident

Time and place

[MagickMuffin]

4. I did enjoy it while I lasted, got booted for not using my real name

DFW area here.

It definitely was interesting on who's trigger happy. Guns and just verbally, their triggers are wound too tight.

There was a lot of suspicious people walking down the street posts and a lot of if they come to my house I'll blow em away replies.


It also helps you to know who these people are, especially since they make you use your real name. I probably would have skirted had I not replied to post and I guess someone narced on me. My mate still has his account and informs me of the cra-cras around the hood.

[Demovictory9]

41. Yes..lots of suspicious looking people posts

[True Blue American]

5. We had a similar experience with Trump backers. It became so bad the group leaders

Called the ones who owned the board. They put a stop to it.

We just now had another. A Poster was asking about a man in her neighborhood board out ranting against The Government. A poster asked if he walked stiff legged. That began a flood gate. One posted an article from Gateway Pundit I informed her that was exactly who there was a neighborhood board rule. But received several thanks.! She got all huffy with me talking about how that was censorship..

I left it alone

[dhol82]

6. NYC - not too many problems

I get occasional useful information. Mostly seems like a marketplace.
I don’t really get that many notifications.
Most MAGATs get shut down quickly.

[hamsterjill]

7. I jumped ship about two years ago.

When I first joined, like you, it was an informative and generally useful site. But it quickly turned to a bunch of Trumpers (I’m in Texas!) touting crap, and after alerting them to Nextdoor because there was a “no politics” rule at least at that time, and nothing being done, I stopped using it.

I get an invitation every once in a while to rejoin and that gives me the means to view posts (but not comment).

It’s still all political crap as well as the endless lost animal posts which break my heart. You let your cat run around the neighborhood unsupervised and he doesn’t come home and you’re surprised? Your beloved dog got out the ONE time he doesn’t have his collar and tags on, and you’ve been meaning to get him chipped but hadn’t…yeah, sure. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

I find life less stressful being away from Nextdoor.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. I gave it up two years ago

they were using it to whine about black folks and latino folks just like - being in their yard.

Yeah - I found myself - because some asshole over the border (PA) drove through my town. Thank god he didn't call the police on me for weeding my flower beds.

[we can do it]

9. Alert on the idiots. It seems to help.

[Nay]

11. We have good moderators who take down divisive crap right away, plus members

who will turn your ass in to the mods ASAP if you start up with that stuff, or if you start political or racial arguments.

[Tree Lady]

32. Same here moderators that keep it from

Being too political. I live in a 60/40 conservative town but plenty on our side too so political stuff can get heated online.

[redstatebluegirl]

12. Same here.

I quit using it when it became a cesspool full of Trump zombies.

[ConstanceCee]

13. I Quit, Too

When it first started, I thought it would be good for basic neighborhood stuff, but it quickly evolved into sightings of suspicious cars and walkers, and I dropped out.

[luvs2sing]

14. I check it in the morning..

to see if anything major happened in the neighborhood that I should know about, but I don’t participate. It’s mostly folks selling stuff and complaining about the neighborhood being overrun with deer..which it is.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. It's great for finding lost pets

There is good done on Nextdoor. People who need help getting it, people who need help finding a lost pet getting it. It's good place to buy and sell used stuff.

You've got to take the bad with the good. The antivax stuff on mine gets removed by Admins almost immediately. But then there is always the, "brown people are walking down my street" garbage you have to try to ignore.

I saw a lot of people getting help around the Holidays from complete strangers, was good to see.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

16. These repug scumbags are ruining the internet ...

spreading their lies wherever they can.

In some cases, like facebook and twitter, it's partly an organized effort.

[milestogo]

17. I don't post or interact there - I just keep an eye on it for information.

Its not a cesspool where I live, but I'm in a liberal city.

[tishaLA]

18. The antivaxx stuff gets deleted in my area (Los Angeles)

but we have tons of people making disparaging remarks about the homeless and posting about anyone who looks at them "suspiciously." Nothing has been more successful in making me hate my neighbors than that app.

[CrispyQ]

20. Yes, it's pretty much ruined for discussion.

Even innocent questions are met with angry, hostile replies. Someone asked where to send a tip for our garbage collectors & I couldn't believe the nasty replies! WTF????? Get a fucking grip, people. These are your neighbors.

I check it for community news & items for sale, only.

[Hoyt]

21. It's good for lost dogs/cats, people needing help, etc., but that's about it.

[Poiuyt]

22. I use it to look for suggestions on home repair contractors and vendors

I was able to find a teen aged boy to help me shovel my sidewalk and driveway through Nextdoor.

[onecaliberal]

24. I had to delete the AP early on in the pandemic when I realized my neighbors are fascists.

[FakeNoose]

25. I think like most things, it depends on where you live

I happen to live in the city of Pittsburgh where most of us are registered Democratic voters. Most of our neighborhoods are 50% white and 50% black and we're fine with that. Any racist families moved the suburbs probably 30 years ago.

Our Nextdoor seems to have a lot of helpful posts, some are complainers, but most are encouraging. I don't see much in the way of political comments on there. I'm not a frequent poster on Nextdoor but I do get notifications almost daily. It seems like some Nextdoor posters treat it like Facebook - they're on all day long. Well OK, I'm on DU a lot so I don't need to spend much time on Nextdoor. God forbid I should ever go on Facebook again.

[HAB911]

26. Ours is a constant flow of hilarity

a mod seems to quickly remove reported posts for covid disinformation, but a lot of stupidity is until then

[tenderfoot]

27. I signed out for good months ago

eom

[MOMFUDSKI]

28. Awful

here in Treasure Island, FL. One could post free kittens and some asshole would figure a way to turn it into a grievance fest and it is always pro repub. I am surrounded by morans but then is there really anywhere one could live and escape this stuff?

[DemocraticPatriot]

29. Oh, I used it for a bit, but almost all the posts were from others

in my city of 250,000, thus not really "in my neighborhood"... so that was annoying to me.

Didn't notice any anti-vaxxers at the time, but I quit it many months ago.

[Sympthsical]

30. My neighborhood mods delete COVID posts

Honestly, it's much nicer. Now we can focus on the true enemy - random people walking through the neighborhood in broad daylight.

[Demovictory9]

40. Lol..mine had a lot of "woman looked at my house" "person walking dog stared at me"

"Here is their pic. Watch out for them" 😏

[bahboo]

31. basically pretty good...bullshit gets alerted on quickly...

then again, I live in SoCal...

[IcyPeas]

33. Reading the posts on Nextdoor makes me afraid to go outside and take a walk

you'd think there are drugged out homeless people just waiting to pounce on you at every turn. And as soon as someone complains you get all the "well you voted for this person, so this is what you get" type posts. It's just too political.

Yeah, it's good for lost pets. Also, good for reports of bobcats in the neighborhood.

[Indykatie]

34. I Live in a Very Diverse and Liberal Area of Indianapolis. There are No Nutters on our NDA.

[DavidDvorkin]

35. I haven't noticed any change

I don't see antivaxx stuff there. Perhaps the moderators are deleting such posts.

My local one is definitely not a cesspool.

[BlackSkimmer]

36. Yeah, I've seen a lot of that too. I never post, only read. But it seems like a rw hangout.

Ick.

[budkin]

37. Almost worse than Facebook tbh

It's a total shitshow everywhere.

[sarcasmo]

38. I use the local scanner on Twitter for neighborhood info. Type your city in then scanner.

[Meowmee]

39. I was there briefly

For cat rescue. We live in a county that voted for dump and voted Zeldin in so plenty of humpers. There were some nice people too but mostly nutsos. When I discovered they broadcast your location I left and disabled that. It was too hard to delete some of the posts that I made about rescue etc. though so someone could still find out my location from that unfortunately. I recommend that nobody join Nextdoor because they broadcast the exact location where you live and make it available to everyone. There were some hilarious posts about potholes though which made me laugh- we have a huge problem with our roads and repair, huge and numerous potholes which are never properly repaired. The county is run by a bunch of crooks mostly.

[Torchlight]

43. Ours is pretty tame and apolitical.

Though mine's a smaller, rural neighborhood; and we all know each other-- that may be why no one loses their shit online-- we have to see each other in-person more often than most urban and suburban residents do.

All in all though, it's a pretty cool resource. My gf loves it, and finds bake-, garage- and yard-sales to drag me to.