[poulsbohemian]

Not sure what to think of this article, as it runs very counter to my own ancedatal experience. I'm a realtor in a 35,000 person town (like described in the article) and I advertise on Nextdoor (or should I say I "sponsor" a neighborhood), but I've never had a lead come in that way and I've never heard anyone locally ever mention using nextdoor for anything. Meanwhile, everyone knows about the various Facebook groups that people use locally for referrals for cleaners, landscapers, local politics, et al.

Again, could be a geographical thing or just my anecdata, so FWIW.

[metaxis78]

I think it's very community-to-community. They have hot and influential areas, where the network effect is strong enough to overcome the critical mass required. Also, I imagine they have "bad" mods who kill communities, and "good" mods who don't.

[poulsbohemian]

Yeah, that's kind of my assumption as well. And same goes for the various FB groups -- locally, there's one group people go to be deliberately obnoxious and snotty, and the other to be polite and informative, and everybody in town knows which is which.