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by garfield_light 445 days ago
> This could be marketing to try to replace NextDoor.

This is kinda funny from my perspective. In most of the world WhatsApp reigns supreme to such a degree, that advertising for it would have the same pointlessness of a Coca Cola ad. In LATAM every neighborhood, department building, workplace and school has a multitude of Whatsapp groups.

The good and functioning ones are: work related, have people that organically have become dang or are too small to receive "manual" spam / random petty fights. The "manual" spam is people sending MLM scams, annoyingly advertising their side hustles, political or religious message chains. People also will fight publicly because someone may or not have flirted with someone else's husband. Forums are eternal.

The only thing like NextDoor here is SoSafe, a community safety app, which quarantines the crazy people that see an "undesirable" taking a walk and wants to call the cops.
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travisjungroth 445 days ago
> the same pointlessness of a Coca Cola ad

I agree that this would be a pointless exercise in advertising WhatsApp, but this is a kinda funny comparison. Coca-Cola is advertised like crazy. Unlike WhatsApp, advertising is an essential part of how they maintain their dominance. They don't have the network effects of WhatsApp.

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neilv 445 days ago
BTW, good comments, and sorry for the meta aside, but please be careful when quoting. I said:

> When they started mentioning WhatsApp, I did have the briefest thought that this could be marketing to try to replace NextDoor.

But the quote of a fragment of that, without ellipses, and somehow capitalized, looks like a verbatim quote of an entire sentence, which changes the meaning substantially:

> This could be marketing to try to replace NextDoor.

The difference in meaning is irrelevant to your comments, but, in general, others who come along will see and respond to quotes, so quotes take on a life of their own, while remaining attributed to a person (who didn't necessarily say that).

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inanutshellus 445 days ago
"Meaning is irrelevant." ~neilv

;-)

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garfield_light 445 days ago
Fair point, I'll be more careful.
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