Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper

Re:Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper by jedberg on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:51PM (#26032146)

The platform is fine. Like any social media, it amplifies existing biases that the population it serves already has.

But the specific issue with Next-door is that by design it serves a very limited population, so if that small population has any sort of bias, it is massively amplified.

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Re:Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper by goles on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:14PM (#26032285)

Ok so what is your solution to this problem?

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Re:Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper by Tempest1981 on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:47AM (#26034624)

Make posts visible only to those within 2 blocks, or around 150 households who are close neighbors. Why 150 and not 1500 or 15000? Dunbar's number. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

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Re:Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper by jedberg on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:38PM (#26032429)

Nextdoor needs to do a better job of monitoring their moderators.

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Re:Nextdoor is replacing the small-town paper by goles on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:03PM (#26032571)

Okay so if Nextdoor serves content to local communities which have cultural norms varying from the bay area to so called fly over states how should they monitor their moderators?

If this is such an issue for you please describe how you think a platform which you describe as "fine." should moderate posts across a country as diverse as the US?

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