My ND was just fine until fairly recently. Lost cat. Someone egged my car. Yard sale this weekend.
Then some neighbors started talking about national events, and had their posts deleted.
This spawned a virus of censorship/free-speech/moderator-oppression posts that are self-fulfilling. Taking them down (discussing moderation in the "general" thread is not allowed) spawns more outrage. Leaving them up lets more people fester, foment and hivemind on what victims they are.
It's extra messy because there's a local development that has the ND community up in arms and they're using toxic emotion-based posts to get attention. Deleting them for being unneighborly ("lawmaker didn't acquiesce when I emailed him, so he's corrupt and ought to be locked in jail!") is mixed in with the above "oppression" discussions.
In the end, giving /everyone/ a voice back to /everyone/ creates a cacophony of outrage that has made me appreciate the curated content that we (used to?) get from newspapers.
Ha! In most of the United States, if you memorize the few venomous snakes (the pit vipers and the corals), you know every snake that's not one of those is harmless.
But in Florida there's an additional rule: If it's big enough to eat your German Shepherd, it's a Burmese Python and you need to kill the unfortunate creature because it's invasive.
Near me it's that, but half posts looking for owners of "lost" cats and wildlife, and sudden events, like "why is the major road shut down at the moment?"
I get the local newspaper analogy but am not sure it's quite right, at least where I am. Here it's more like a Facebook group for a specific location.
Federated systems always seemed to me to be a good match for the type of geographically localized communities Nextdoor us targeting.
likewise. Folks selling stuff, looking for odd jobs or recommendations, looking for lost cat or dog or announcing one that they found. Once in a while, "saw something suspicious or heard a loud sound" anyone know about it?
Then some neighbors started talking about national events, and had their posts deleted.
This spawned a virus of censorship/free-speech/moderator-oppression posts that are self-fulfilling. Taking them down (discussing moderation in the "general" thread is not allowed) spawns more outrage. Leaving them up lets more people fester, foment and hivemind on what victims they are.
It's extra messy because there's a local development that has the ND community up in arms and they're using toxic emotion-based posts to get attention. Deleting them for being unneighborly ("lawmaker didn't acquiesce when I emailed him, so he's corrupt and ought to be locked in jail!") is mixed in with the above "oppression" discussions.
In the end, giving /everyone/ a voice back to /everyone/ creates a cacophony of outrage that has made me appreciate the curated content that we (used to?) get from newspapers.