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> until people return to "local" communities If the app NextDoor is any indication, going local doesn’t seem to help either, its as negative and fractious as a
by fardo 3y ago
> until people return to "local" communities
If the app NextDoor is any indication, going local doesn’t seem to help either, its as negative and fractious as any other online community.
At some point, one gets the feeling “the medium is the message” and it’s a flaw inherent to all online social media.
- trabant00 3y agoNextDoor is not local. It has local divisions, communities, whatever you want to call them, but the app is not local. So the owner of the app is not involved in the local communities, he does not personally appoint moderators and so on.
- XorNot 3y agoWell, geographically local has never been a particularly good division anyway - neighbor disputes are a story as old as time, and "don't know your neighbors too well" is sound advice.
- gambiting 3y agoNextDoor doesn't work because: 1) it gets dominated by whoever shouts the loudest/who can spend most time on social media 2) You only get one local community really, and if you aren't in it, you aren't in it. I can join one of thousands of gaming discords, if any of them get too toxic for me I can just join another one. I can't do that with my local community, so you don't have the stick of "if you continue being toxic assholes I'm going to go somewhere else". You can of course stop using it but that's not "taking your business somewhere else".
- midoridensha 3y ago>If the app NextDoor is any indication, going local doesn’t seem to help either, its as negative and fractious as any other online community. In my experience, it was generally much worse, not only for the negativity, but the fact that these toxic people lived nearby.