I signed up to our Nextdoor (uk).

There seems to be four things on here: - an avon lady over agressively spamming her stuff (blocked) - people asking for small job recommendations (who should I get to fix my garden gate, babysitter, tv ariel fitting) - some notices about local events (when / where fireworks, Remembrence, carolling) - group commiseration that one time some group was speeding all over town at midnight running red lights and keeping us up with their skidding and revving.

Honestly pretty good. I see it maybe once a week.

I went to sign up for Nextdoor and it wanted full access to all my contacts in my phone. I looked on their site and that is so they can invite friends from my contacts. I didn't sign up, maybe i will later, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/About-android-app-permis...

I have the iphone app and it didn't require this permission or maybe it asked and I denied it. Is that not possible in android?

I just checked my app, it had no permissions.

I wouldn't allow it to do so, so I assume it asked, I said no, and we moved on.

Aka: “I see a suspicious looking Black Guy in our suburban neighborhood. It looks like he is breaking into a house by using a remote to open a garage door and driving in.”

Yeah, my Next-door has a lot of that. They aren't that obvious though. I like to call them out.

"I saw a suspicious man walking down the street!"

"What made him suspicious?"

"He just doesn't look like he belongs here."

"Why?"

"He's black"

"Being black isn't suspicious"

I then I get an email from Next-door about my comments being reported!

Also: "why haven't the cops arrested all these homeless people yet?"

The only value Nextdoor provided me was making me aware that the asshole down the block is also a racist.

Deleted that cesspool after confirming it was just another fear-inducer service for people who get off on that.

the one useful thing Nextdoor is good for is lost/found pets. Other than that, i've never liked it.

I have a Ring and some of it is just downright funny.

> "suspicious person on my porch, be on the look out!" >> "um, that's the mailman."