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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
What I find interesting is the type of fear that goes around.

Almost all the fear type nextdoor posts in the areas I've lived in have involved animals and not humans.

Fox, random dog, raccoons and the extremely unlikely but reported none the less....bear sightings.