Nextdoor?

[redbird]

I just got a couple of invitations to something that claims to be a private social network "for your neighborhood," but without actually identifying the neighborhood. They are attributed to someone I never heard of.

Does anyone here know if this is active/relevant here in Somerville? Or do any of you know who Oleg Kobzar is?

Comments

[secretlyironic]

I haven't gotten the "referral" thing but it's as legit as anything else. Like a listserv but... you know, monetized.

[jadelennox]

Apparently in many places it ends up being racist as hell but I haven't noticed it being so around here. To be fair I signed up and have only checked it 2 or 3 times.

[secretlyironic]

My experience has largely been "hey, does anyone want free hostas" and "I put a table out on the curb" and "Anyone know a good plumber?"

Although there was an out-of-control thread about how bike lanes are taking all the parking spaces etc etc etc that went on waaaaay too long.

[pklemica]

When I still lived in Somerville I found the Nextdoor community lovely. I signed up for my new neighborhood when I moved to Dorchester, and oh man do these white gentrifiers not appreciate the black folk they are displacing, nor the local homeless. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the group has not managed to keep people of color as active participants for very long. Perhaps surprisingly, I still keep telling people to cut this crap out as if it's actually going to do a damned thing.

... also there was a ginormous rant the other day about: these people who keep releasing these stray cats back into the same place they were found after fixing them, why don't they put out liter boxes I am so sick of all this cat poop in my garden if they really cared about animals they'd be tending to all their needs. That was a real gem.