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This is because Nextdoor is “moderated” by your local neighborhood gestapo. Nextdoor, as an institution, actively seeks out people who pathologically engage wi
by zionic 4y ago
This is because Nextdoor is “moderated” by your local neighborhood gestapo.
Nextdoor, as an institution, actively seeks out people who pathologically engage with their platform and then gives them power over people geographically local to them. This results in moderation-cliques that decide what can and cannot be posted in their local neighborhoods.
It somehow manages to be worse than this site when it comes to suppression and censorship, and to be honest I’ve almost totally lost the desire to interact with either.
I’ve hit peak moderation fatigue, I’m tired and quite frankly offended anyone thinks they can tell me what I should (or want) to see. All their algorithms are corrupt, all the systems that rely on manual, human moderation are biased and useless. Curation is an iron grip around my throat and I want to cut it.
I’m to the point that I’d rather drink from the firehose of “misinformation” than thirst in the desert centralized of approval.
Edit: originally posted this in reply to a comment down-chain, but by the time I finished typing “you can’t reply to this anymore”. It’s getting meta at this point
- AlbertCory 4y agoI feel for you. And that's why it's worth getting a daily email from Nextdoor, but no more than that.
- int_19h 4y agoI don't know how Nextdoor "seeks out people" to moderate, but what I can tell you is that my previous community lead was a guy who didn't post at all for like 2 years. My new community lead is me, somehow, even though I didn't post for almost as long. 99% of my posts even now are basically, "hey, can you guys please read the rules before making yet another post about a suspicious black dude who's obviously up to no good cuz he's wearing a hoodie? kthx". (I don't know if that constitutes the "neighborhood gestapo" in your book.)
- mcv 4y ago"Somehow"? How are these community leads assigned?
- lolc 4y agoLook like the least jittery person is assigned :-)
- kbelder 4y agoI like the concept of appointing the least active participant as moderator.
- int_19h 4y agoWhen a neighborhood is created, the person who does so automatically becomes a lead; I believe that was the case for the guy who was lead before. Aside from that, I have no idea.