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Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's a shame, facebook used to be great for local stuff, but the algorithm seems to have killed that.

Tried nextdoor but it's mostly Karens.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I got next door, but only care about it as far as looking out for potential missing pets. I live in a fairly red area, and everyone is middle-aged on there, and everything I saw was super conservative people, and some hate for anything mentioning the possibility of non straight people.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

Even in my very very blue area nextdoor is almost entirely crime posting and people posting doorbell cams of brown people on the sidewalk. It's a complete wasteland.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Next door made me want to move. There were more old, racist trumpers on there than my neighborhood Facebook page.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pro tip, if there aren't many "leads" (what nextdoor calls mods) in your area you can usually just e-mail them to volunteer and they will make you one.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I'm just now reviewing ancient comments and replies of mine. If you haven't found out already, think of a site that's similar to Facebook, but instead of making "friends" as the big draw, it's all about your neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. So it's filled with people asking about where to find "cheap reliable (insert service here like landscaping, drywalling, etc)", suspicious people seen around the place which another commenter mentioned, so given the very white, very Karen-like audience is probably just a notice that some racial minority person was here. Like I mentioned, lost pets are a common post, there was recent 2 different companies going around digging fiber lines for Internet service, and then the predictable "has anyone switched, how do you like it?" type posts that follow.

A lot of these people don't know each other, so their only common ground seems, at least where I am, to be mostly just where they physically live, and the fact that they all love Trump.