Yeah, I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or walking my kid to school too close to someone’s driveway, and the unfathomably bad design and functionality of their mobile site has me convinced that they’d be incapable of intentionally implementing dark patterns.
>I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or ...
And so what if you are? Not being there and put on blast affects you how? Being there and put on blast is different because? You can respond by using gasoline to put out the fire?
Nextdoor is a great place to find out who you never want to associate in real life.
You say this as if people are not complaining and organizing against you now. Are you sure that's not actually happening and you're just not on the same chat they are? Let that fester...
What a brilliant business technique! You have to to consent or be punished for otherwise acting like a responsible human. Then they can monetize the engagement. Everybody wins!
Let's extend that. Publish any senior executive's home address to a list containing many militant communists unless they subscribe to your engagement platform themselves! High value info to monetize right there. Then do the switch because they clicked through something. Capitalism working just like we were told about as kids...
If you don't want people unsubscribing, you just add more buttons and make unsubscribing harder to do.