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Been a secret lurker for a while, arguments start within a few reply’s people moan and whinge about absolutely nothing.
Good for buying local bargains local info etc
Absolutely toxic place. Horrible to know the complete Tuesdays that surround you locally!
I had to leave after a militant dog walking anti cyclist started pulling me in to pointless and bizarre arguments.
Full of utter mentalists, but not in an amusing way.
I have it, ours constantly has reports of missing cats/dogs/tortoises and random arguments spouting from seemingly inoffensive posts - amusing for a bit but soon gets boring.
militant dog walking anti cyclist
Yeah, I know who you mean and she's completely mad.
The whinging about the road closures for the commonwealth games on Nextdoor was predictably epic (which I didn't actually see her joining in with, perhaps as it's just mountain bikers that she really hates), but now they've gone on to complaining about the maggots in their new council supplied food waste caddies. Then the sanctimonious crowd chip in with suggestions that if they ate their food instead of throwing it away they wouldn't get maggots, and then it all kicks off. It can be entertaining, but also quite depressing.
The passive aggressive posting of “the woman who pulled out on me” or “the bloke in the blue Golf who drives around with his window down and music on too loud who frightens my dog”
I live Nextdoor to mentalists.
I had to leave. Far too toxic.
Sounds terrible, exactly like local Facebook groups. Thanks for flagging another internet cesspit to avoid.
Do you wonder if Tim Berners-Lee knew what the internet would become he'd have quietly just unplugged everything and gone to the pub instead?
F m l i joined up after seeing this and blimey the intrusiveness of the developers of that app is unreal.
Just aswell I made an alias lol
This
Thanks for flagging another internet cesspit to avoid.
And also mostly this..
Do you wonder if Tim Berners-Lee knew what the internet would become he’d have quietly just unplugged everything and gone to the pub instead?
🙄😕
Do you wonder if Tim Berners-Lee knew what the internet would become he’d have quietly just unplugged everything and gone to the pub instead?
Aware enough to know his name, yet not quite enough to know what exactly his gift to the world was... 😀
Sounds terrible, exactly like local Facebook groups.
'Spotted' Facebook groups are funny and uplifting - they give you that 'I'm not actually a **** but really quite grounded' feeling! 🙂
My one is mainly folk advertising and the odd lost/found dog
TBL ??? his gift to the world was inventing the internet....
I lurk on nextdoor, its quite useful to know which house/shed/car has been robbed in the local area to keep you on your toes and remember to lock up. Either crime is massively up, or its just the site is providing a way to raise awareness
There is alot of random moaning. Some old chap seems to link every moan back to council workers still working from home post covid and refusing to go into the office....
It does / did do some really dodgy stuff like send postcards to your neighbours using your name saying you invited them to join. Not sure if that still happens. Its definitely not one I would be using if there was a viable local community one which covered stuff like crime, road closures, events etc...
Sounds amazing. I think I'll sign up with a sock puppet account when I get home.
TBL ??? his gift to the world was inventing the internet….
No it wasn't.
for 99.9% of people 'the internet' is a ubiquitous enough term that that statement is correct.
no-one talks to the the other 0.1%.
I thought loads of the internet wasn’t the World Wide Web. Like 4% of the internet can’t be found through a search engine
Logged on, had a look around, deleted account.
I have no interest in Erie down the road ranting about rubbish or dog walkers or whatever.
It does / did do some really dodgy stuff like send postcards to your neighbours using your name saying you invited them to join.
We've had a couple of them, I assumed it was instigated by the neighbour who wanted to set the group up. Is that not the case? Wow, that is flakey.
Think I'll sign up with a fake account though, sounds like fun. 😁
Like 4% of the internet can’t be found through a search engine
I'm surprised if it's that low? E-mail, ftp, VPN's etc?
QUESTION.
As I deleted my aka acct. 4 mins after joining, would I still be sent a postcard.
I'd feel really left out if not. 😜
It does / did do some really dodgy stuff like send postcards to your neighbours using your name saying you invited them to join
It still does, I just signed up and selected this option. Looking forward to my neighbours getting invite cards from Nigel Frogface in the near future!
Sounds terrible, exactly like local Facebook groups.
I joined a local Facebook in the hopes of getting some local info...Jesus, I think I lasted one evening after being questioned about where I lived (not believed) about how long I'd lived there (not long enough, apparently) and what was I think telling them that I rode a MTB...
Some bits of the internet should come with warning labels.
Thanks, Sir Tim.
Not much happening on my Nextdoor. I was expecting some florid anti-cyclist ranting. 🙁
Maybe you guys would like to update Wikipedia if you are suggesting TBL isn’t credited with inventing the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Or are you making some niche geeky argument that www is not the same as the internet?
Btw have met the guy though open data work I did a while back. Very nice chap.
Or are you making some niche geeky argument that www is not the same as the internet?
It isn’t. Ask TBL next time you meet him.
I think I will skip...
We have a residents association that is reputedly the oldest in the country, that was pretty good at organising residents for us to vote for instead of party line at local elections. We have a magazine.
That's where the good stops. The FB page is pretty awful anti-bike, anti-fun etc
What happened to having a big old argument in the street like we did in the 70's in my steet? 🙂
Or are you making some niche geeky argument that www is not the same as the internet?
It's not even a geeky niche arguement it's a fact. The world wide web is just one component (that originated with one particular protocol) of the internet as a whole.
Just read a post on our local Nextdoor group going on about the toxic pedantry and inane arguements on some site called 'Singletrack World'. Looks like one to avoid...
Just read a post on our local Nextdoor group going on about the toxic pedantry and inane arguements on some site called ‘Singletrack World’. Looks like one to avoid…
*arguments*
This was a trap, wasn't it?
* particularly pleased with trolling bringing out IT pedants *
maybe a more accurate statement would be without TBL there would be no internet?
See. Nextdoor is like this place, except they pedant on grammer
*go on bite again*
*go on bite again*
Muuussst..... resisssst...
It does / did do some really dodgy stuff like send postcards to your neighbours using your name saying you invited them to join.
This alone was reason enough for me to quit nextdoor