Nextdoor to become a publicly traded company

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11 points·josephwegner··5 comments

Bay Area here. I was contacted by a recruiter at Nextdoor for a potential role, and I politely turned down the in invitation. I’m sure it’s of no surprise to anyone that Nextdoor can be a force multiplier of toxicity.

Today a local bar announced that they were reopening, and my husband asked if they were hosting social gatherings as we’ve been working to find an LGBTQ-friendly space. He received a great deal of venom and deleted his comment.

The selling point given to me is the same as the one stated here in the article. Nextdoor brings people together to build stronger neighborhoods.

Our neighborhood is small and our house is not inconspicuous. It’s been a very quiet afternoon for both of us, and we’re moving pretty slow.

Good for them, they got money.

What part of that question were people upset about?

Pretty sure the guy who posted this anecdote is a troll. Joined 2 hours ago just to post that comment.

It's happened before on other threads on companies going public. Not sure why people are creating accounts just to hate on a company, not the first time I've seen that here.

You got me ;)

I feel like dunking on Nextdoor for being a bunch of racists/homophobes is pretty par for the course. Basically every piece of media I see about them relates to what a shit show the moderation is (which makes sense, the core idea is basically YikYak, which also had huge moderation issues)

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