• The Picard ManeuverOP
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      987 months ago

      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…

      • Nate Cox
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        647 months ago

        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.

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          177 months ago

          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 ___”

          • Nate Cox
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            77 months ago

            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.

        • @Seleni@lemmy.world
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          27 months ago

          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.

            • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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              37 months ago

              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.

      • @proctonaut@lemmy.world
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        447 months ago

        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.

        • @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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          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.

          • @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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            87 months ago

            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.

            • @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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              47 months ago

              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.

            • @sudo42@lemmy.world
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              37 months ago

              Yup. The proverbial “talking over the back fence” gossip now has instant, world-wide reach.

    • @ickplant@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        367 months ago

        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?

        • @flames5123@lemmy.world
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          117 months ago

          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.

        • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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          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.

      • @Xaphanos@lemmy.world
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        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.

  • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    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.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        197 months ago

        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.

  • nifty
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    377 months ago

    People using Next Door have the most garbage takes about anything

    • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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      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.

      • nifty
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        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).

        • @Strykker@programming.dev
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          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.

  • @BabyVi@lemmy.world
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    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_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • don
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      27 months ago

      Latin for “sterilized bro” 😱

        • @grysbok
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          187 months ago

          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.

            • @grysbok
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              27 months ago

              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.

  • at_an_angle
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    17 months ago

    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?