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>>pseudo+(OP)
I live in an immediate suburb of Boston, and joined Nextdoor and joined to see what features were attracting so many folks to a new social media platform. Wow! Anyone with a tattoo, going to your door for any reason was considered "suspicious" and reported. One alarming thing, is that NextDoor is feeding on our fears about outsiders who look different, and creating a loop out of this for higher engagement when people post pictures and engage their camera feed.

It's too bad, I think idea of organizing a social network based on proximity and centered around community information is a viable idea, It's just that NextDoor is doing that with our worst instincts.

>>wespis+8g
This has been my experience, as well. Take this type of echo chamber to its extreme, and you get this[1] kind of reaction from an entire community, where they end up chasing a Hispanic family out of town because someone said they were antifa on Facebook[2].

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/06/fa...

[2] https://twitter.com/RandazzoTweets/status/126860852649191014...

>>heavys+Tg
Ok, I read both the links you provided, and it would appear your words:

> reaction from an entire community, where they end up chasing a Hispanic family out of town

Is a drastic overstatement of what happened.

Or did I miss something? Are there really only four vehicles in the entire community of Forks?

>>TheSpi+Pl
You missed something, because it was more than 4 cars. Members of the community followed them in, then others approached them at a store and several hours later a larger group chased them out. Among the people involved are city councilmen, the mayor and his son, and several local business owners. Dozens of people were involved in person, and dozens more online. Armed people were mobilized in not only Forks, WA, but Olympia and Port Townsend based on rumors about the Hispanic family.

For example, when they were stopped at the store, the family is quoted as saying[1]:

> The family had shopped for camping supplies at Forks Outfitters and were confronted “by seven or eight carloads of people in the grocery store parking lot,” Anderson said they reported to deputies.

No one in the community is willing to come forward with the names of the guilty parties, however many of them were okay with spreading violent rumors about out-of-towners, both of which are levels of complicity in my book.

[1] https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/crime/family-harassed-in-...