My city subreddit isn’t even the worst, but someone asks how to ride the trolley for free and gets downvoted to shit and shamed.
Most Americans already love licking cop boot, and local subreddits are basically just NextDoor for millennials. It self-selects for NIMBYs, cop worshippers, and other assorted reactionaries.
app that lets you connect with your local neighborhood. its mostly rich people posting about how they saw a black guy walk in front of their house
NextDoor has to be a perfect example of a platform that could have tons of value for organizing communities, but the cultural illness of America and the business model (profit motive) completely recuperate the real value proposition into toxic late capitalist hellscape that reinforces/reproduces the status quo
the saddest part is that the people that run NextDoor probably think of it as success to have good ‘upper class demos’ engagement instead of actual metrics on overall community enagagement
