The dumbest place on the internet
Man, I used to think Youtube comments were the dumbest posts on the internet, but Nextdoor takes the biscuit. I get notification of new posts and I know clicking them will be an utter waste of time, but I do it anyway.
It’s all I lost my cat, yay, my cat came home again and Evri has delivered my package to somebody else. That last is particularly aggrieving because I’m waiting for a shipment from Evri and for a week my tracking number has come back “We’re expecting your parcel to arrive with us soon.”
Plus, not a lot goes on around here, so it’s constantly showing me news items from “my village” that are, in fact, from a town 50 miles away. Do you have Nextdoor in the States or is it a limey thing?
Anyway, we’re going to the moving pictures tonight, so I have to go take a bath.
Posted: August 27th, 2026 under personal.
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Comment from Maetenloch
Time: August 27, 2026, 3:46 pm
Yeah we have Nextdoor here in the US. In fact it’s one of the few social media sites that I’m on. It has its uses – getting recommendations, getting rid of stuff, finding out the details of very local stuff – but it’s also full of dumbassery. It’s eye opening and a bit disconcerting to read the comments and realize just how dumb and incapable of coherent writing some of your neighbors are (they walk among us…)
Having moved back to Nashville from CA it’s interesting how certain topics on ND trigger excessive internet stupidity and how they vary from region to region – in CA it was anything to do with homeless or illegals while in Nashville it’s property taxes or hunting. Fireworks and any kind of traffic-related construction always bring the stupidity.
Part of the issue is how ND selects the posts that it sends you in the digest. It chooses the ones most likely to get you to click through – not the most recent, relevant, or even local. So you posts with a lot of comments about an accident that happened 3 days and 12 miles away. Also the summary usually cuts of the critical part of the post so you have to click through to see any details.
And on the site itself there’s no way to just see posts in chronological order. So you always get recent stuff mixed in with stale posts from up to two week before.
These are all deliberate choices by Nextdoor.
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