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Re:Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad D... by Semaphor on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:08AM (#19735961)
I just checked them out. Looks like their German clone nebenan.de (pretty much a direct translation of "next door") is the winner here. My neighborhood (southern city bowl of a pop 200k town) doesn't yet exist on nextdoor, while nebenan lists 1767 "active neighbors"
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Re:Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad D... by biztos on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:59AM (#19738390)
Interesting, I just had a look at nebenan[0] and I was pretty much expecting to see a Rocket Internet[1] logo. No such logo, but it was founded by one of Rocket's main cloners[2] so that seems to be the model here too. Nice that they're so subtle with the name.

An interesting twist is that they seem to be involved with senior-citizen organizations. Maybe older folks are more likely to get involved?

As much as I dislike this German cloning model, and find it sad as there's a lot of real creativity in Berlin, I think a service like this might stand a better chance in a country with strong laws around privacy and slander.

[0]: https://nebenan.de/about (in German)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet#Controversy

[2]: https://www.ksta.de/wirtschaft/nebenan-de-und-wirnachbarn-co...

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Re:Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad D... by Semaphor on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:07AM (#19739106)
The average age is certainly not low. I've seen a lot of people I'd guess are quite a bit above 40 or 50. Barely anyone significantly younger than me (33).
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