[PascLeRasc]

Well Nextdoor is a perfect alternative for all your racist relatives who just want to rant about poor people moving into their neighborhood. My whole family has accounts in several different areas of Pittsburgh and most of the posts are people taking pictures of someone walking past their house or parking on their street and asking "Does anyone know this guy? Does he even live here? I think they're planning on breaking into my house!!"

[jchw]

I joined Nextdoor thinking it would be cool to meet with local programmers and computer hobbyists. My first red flag was that apparently things involving computers are not a hobby in nextdoor. The second red flag was that it told me my community "needed" me to invite one other person before I even got to the feed - what? You could skip it but I would absolutely not have known based on the language used. Finally, I got to the feed and... It sucked. It felt like it was all just NIMBYs, but even then it felt dead and lacking any decent content.

Frankly, I can't believe this app exists.

[aglavine]

It is quite different being racist and being concerned about safety.

[skrebbel]

I strongly suspect that the vast majority of racists, deep deep inside, are just worried about safety.

[bdcravens]

Yes but on Ring neighbors for example, it seems most of the “concerns” are just people walking up to the door while having pigment in their skin. Usually it’s obvious they’re doing door to door sales or the like, but the comments imply something is amiss.

[aglavine]

I don't know.

I tend to avoid such generalizations. I lived in an unsafe neighborhood and saw people do what they can to improve their situation, with poor if any help from government. Call them racist seems unfair and totally misunderstanding their problem.

[ryanmercer]

>Usually it’s obvious they’re doing door to door sales or

This is a common tactic to identify if someone is home or not and to look for packages to grab, if not an attempt to social engineering credit card or checking info.