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.
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