Hey All,
I’m in the US and looking for an alternative to the Nextdoor app that allows me to connect with my neighbors, and possibly includes a marketplace. The current state of Nextdoor’s racism and transphobia makes it unusable. I even live in a relatively progressive part of the US. I would really love to have an app that lives up to the standards it claims to have. I know that’s a BIG ask though. Thanks!
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I don’t have any good suggestions for you but I do agree, Nextdoor is trash. I removed it from my phone and usually avoid logging into the site at all. They seem to be in a competition with Facebook to figure out which of the two is the bigger dumpster fire.
re: marketplace, for now I just go back to Craigslist if I want to scan for anything interesting someone is selling, or giving away for free.
Is this a problem with the app or your neighbours?
My problem is with the app more than my neighbors. There are plenty of a**holes everywhere, but the app lets their racism and transphobia fester. There are also plenty of people that have been banned from using the app because they list a preferred name as opposed to a legal name, which is definitely transphobic.
It’s also problematic because it prevents folks with non-European names from using a name that won’t draw a lot of attention they don’t want from said a**holes. I understand that is another much deeper issue in the US, but I can only do so much about that.
Its like that neighborhood bar that allowed Nazis to hang out there and before long turned into a Nazi bar.
It’s both.
Unusable!
After last winter, every neighborhood in south Minneapolis has a dozen hyperlocal Signal groups, and a handful of broader ones.
For the most part it’s turned into a solar punk utopia version of NextDoor.
I don’t know how you achieve that without having to repel a few thousand nazis as its genesis, but maybe some flyers will do the trick?
For the most part it’s turned into a solar punk utopia version of NextDoor.
I have to ask. Is this a good thing? It sounds awesome.
I mean, yeah, it’s actually pretty great. Lotta little problems getting solved every day – lost dogs returned home, that sort of thing.
Try citizen (iPhones) for the local incident reports without the racism
