The subreddits for my local city are slowly turning into a weird BLM/Nextdoor hybrid though. Any mention of cops results in an endless parade of ACAB/bootlicker comments and most of the rest of the content is nitpicky complaints.
I'm not sure where else I can go to stay connected with some local folk though.
But that's nothing. Most hobby subreddits are becoming Instagram feeds thanks to the new design and the mobile app.
And professional subreddits are becoming a weird mix of people wanting to start in the field asking the same basic questions over and over, and people only really answering the basic question while simultaneously complaining about a "lack of depth" in the discussions.
This is why you see so people saying "there are good communities!" but they never tell which ones are good. God forbid more people join them.
I would ask if we live in the same city, but I think this is every city subreddit now.
I later found out that person is somehow a moderator on nearly every city/town-specific subreddit across the entire country. Easily 40-50. Spending something like 10 hours a day banning people and deleting threads/comments according to their narrow view of how people should think and what news is worthy of being seen, even though they clearly had no ties to the locals.