Nextdoor Social Media Giant Slashes 25% of Staff in Latest Layoffs
Nextdoor: one big ‘Karen’ clambake of angry menopausal harpies
By Katy Grimes, November 8, 2023 8:52 am
Social media giant Nextdoor, which I refer to as one big “Karen” clambake of angry menopausal harpies, announced it will lay off 25% of its staff in a financial report posted Tuesday. Cue the violins… millions of people won’t care at all – or will celebrate.
The most toxic of all of the social media organizations, Nextdoor is the hyperlocal “neighborhood” website which claims, “it’s where communities come together to greet newcomers, exchange recommendations, and read the latest local news. Where neighbors support local businesses and get updates from public agencies. Where neighbors borrow tools and sell couches.”
“Karen” doesn’t greet new neighbors the way you might expect.
KRON reported:
In a financial report posted Tuesday, the job cuts are part of a broader cost reduction plan that targets reducing the neighborhood network social media company’s personnel expenses by $60 million.
“This reduction in our team is the hardest decision we have had to make at Nextdoor,” said Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar. “While our opportunity and belief in the transformative power of community remains unwavering, and our business is financially strong with a healthy balance sheet, we must follow through on our commitment to our shareholders.”
Nextdoor employs a little over 700 people. “Assuming the number stayed flat, that means 176 Nextdoor employees will get a pink slip. A Nextdoor spokesperson did not provide an exact number but confirmed that almost 200 employees are part of the reduction,” the San Francisco Standard reported.
In its financial report, Nextdoor’s highlighted metrics for the quarter ended September 30, 2023 include:
- Total Weekly Active Users (WAU) of 40.4 million increased 6% year-over-year.
- Revenue of $56 million increased 4% year-over-year.
- Net loss was $38 million, compared to $35 million in the year-ago period.
- Adjusted EBITDA loss was $20 million, compared to $18 million in the year-ago period.
- Ending cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities were $540 million as of September 30, 2023.
The Globe has followed the tech layoffs closely – Twitter, Pelaton, Lyft, Opendoor, Chime, Stripe, Intel, Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, PayPal, NetApp, Yahoo, Twilio, Meta, Apple, Dropbox and Amazon have all made cutbacks and layoffs starting in October of 2022.
As for Nextdoor, get in line for cutbacks and layoffs.
The reality of Nextdoor is those few administrators controlling neighborhood Nextdoor sites have created a toxic cesspool that facilitates irrational neighborhood drama, encourages groupthink, and is where neighbors can do hand-to-hand combat on city issues without leaving the comfort of their recliner.
However, not everything about Nextdoor is noxious. The Best of Nextdoor on Twitter is priceless and thoroughly entertaining.
Here are a few samples:
"When neighbors start talking, good things happen." 🏡 pic.twitter.com/Hlehd4gcwX
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) June 7, 2023
and this gem:
This time of year, I grab weeds while I’m walking my dog and weave them into little wreaths that I leave around the neighborhood… specifically because there is a woman on Next Door who is furious because she thinks they are signs of witchcraft. I encourage you to do the same. pic.twitter.com/7f8NEmZX0o
— Drew Mackie (@drewgmackie) April 19, 2023
There is pet advice:
HELP WITH CAT pic.twitter.com/miJFZlvPx9
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) January 14, 2023
And neighbors helping neighbors:
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) November 21, 2022
Cue the Karens:
Nextdoor continues to be the undisputed most unhinged place on the internet. pic.twitter.com/FAza6aFiCD
— Meghann Myers (@Meghann_MT) June 18, 2023
Lastly, how did I get kicked off Nextdoor? Someone posted an article I wrote. I didn’t post the article – someone I don’t even know posted it, and BAM, I was banished. Thankfully!
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I feel I speak for everyone everywhere when I say that California Globe should have WAY MORE PHOTOS OF CATS WEARING FUNNELS.
Big LOL on Nextdoor’s well-earned description. (!!!) Actually the whole article is hilarious.
At first when we got the “invite” years ago I thought it might be a good idea to know about crimes possibly happening in distant parts of our neighborhood so I considered joining, but (as usual) dragged my feet. Then the ‘Karen’ nastiness received some publicity, especially during ‘Covid.” Dodged a bullet! Was already well aware of certain neighbors shunning me and turning their noses up because I opposed a school parcel tax (or whatever), so it wasn’t really necessary to volunteer to read insults and nastiness online.
Maybe that some of these annoying startups are failing means the World as Seen by Silicon Valley is what is actually undergoing a “Great Reset.” A ‘reset’ to normality would be a good thing!
As the saying goes, “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” I left Nextdoor more than three years ago after realizing that it had become the digital equivalent of the “Harper Valley PTA.” It seemed like a good concept at the time; but not all community engagement is meant to be virtual. It’s best to engage with your neighbors the old fashioned way by meeting and communicating with them in person and not in some covert passive aggressive and woke manner.
Exactly, Rick.
The masters of our “economy” (like one big printed circuit that takes human life, raw mineral resources, and delivers wealth and power to those in control) needs excess labor in America right now for whatever socio-political-economc reason. So, on top of flooding us with excess low level labor, all the lower-IQ white collar, and quite a few higher intellect managerial types, are being booted into the unemployment benefits line to become addicted to drugs, flood all no-skill jobs with applications, and otherwise consume vice and degeneracy for the time being. When our masters need us again, they will stop handing out benefits to those of us acting less like beasts in the field. Maybe, some day. To be honest, they prefer us distracted and shouting at each other disassociated from our own families and our even our own faculties to determine truth and beauty from modern art.
I learned quickly Nextdoor was the stalking grounds for the Vengeful Cancel Culture Cat Ladies. None dare stray from the official but unwritten Democrat narrative.
We even tried a side chat group on Nextdoor that someone called “I am a conservative in a liberal city”. But it got bombed out of existence by the invading PC crowds since the moderator did not make it “private”. We were pretty tame in our tentative contacts. It was also the only gathering spot for wounded Trump warriors in this town – each of us were surprised at our growing numbers, once we found a place to gather. But “they” on Nexdoor quickly brought an end to that rare moment of conservative respite …. in this liberal town.
I liked the original intent of Nextdoor. But II came to loathe the group hive mind and the vicious pilling-on, if one dared stray from the official progressive narrative. Bottom line: no, we can’t all get along. Best let us go our separate ways, and leave each other alone. And stick to contractor and handy man recommendations, along with Ring camera videos of porch pirates.
I got kicked off Nexdoor when I had finally had enough of the cat lady cabal, who were lamenting endlessly about the horrible deaths rats had to go through if one used rat poison.
I suggested they talk to Planned Parenthood to learn about more humane euthanasia techniques. I knew that would be the final straw for them, and ND did quickly suspend my participation.
I love it
LOL!
I thought I was the outlier! I had to get off that app!
Katy your description is priceless!
On occasion I had enjoyed a cat fight but I got bored and the strays outside the neighborhood could get mean😿😂
I fall into the celebration camp!
Thanks for posting “The Best of Nextdoor”
I have been missing out!
Before I left NextDoor my neighbor and I had fun messing with the algorithms of bad conduct. I was called mean many times because I called out Newsolini’s dictatorial ways.
@Jaye. I love your story! Planned Parenthood for Rats😂
Buh Bye NextDoor!
p.s.
Who knew there are Lemonade Stand haters!
Yikes!😝
LOL. Thanks for the laugh Fed Up Cali Girl.
IF you stray from Democrat talking points – your post disappears, but if you even comment with a conservative view – mob scene appears and you end up suspended or removed. ND is the echo chamber fascist center for leftist paranoid complainers.
Many of my posts were simply removed. I was suspended a few years ago for violating their policy against racism. My offense? I posted, without comment, a link to a petition against Drag Queen Story Hour in our public libraries. My account was suddenly reactivated about eight months later, no explanation (I don’t use it, but do view the site once in a blue moon just for chuckles). I don’t think sites like this one or Fakebook will disappear; they will be kept alive by the conformist, Karen types. The future of social media, however, belongs to decentralized, blockchain based peer to peer applications such as Bastyon (https://bastyon.com/walkingthroughwalls?ref=P8yuFuKrYpLxnk11uCnzmsyQn1NPG2Cwg9) and Nostr. Currently, I use Bastyon and MeWe. No censorship (beyond actual illegal activity), no thought police, and no Karens.
Every time I need a good belly-laugh, or a need to get my blood-pressure elevated, I check into Nextdoor…
For every HELPFUL post, there are at least 9-10 of these unhinged lunatic ranty-shrews using the platform as a megaphone to share their special brand of mental illness with the world at large….
Too bad this platform isn’t like the helpful 10% all the time, but some people just can’t help themselves… and they vote with us….which helps us understand why California is the place that it is….
I have one woman “reviewer” there who is just out to get me, and censors me by hiding and deleting my posts as often as she can. Despite complaining to the fine liberal folks at ND about her blatant censorship, I get repeated responses about not being able to report back about another user’s behavior. (Hint: I’m NOT asking for that – use another canned answer. She’s damaging YOUR brand)
Then there are the repeated lies by ND staff about why my post was improperly censored or their claims that they restored it (but didn’t), or a recent one where a friend posted a picture and people responded heavily about it. Several of my posts were deleted. I complained to ND about it, and I was told that since the thread was gone, I had no complaint. The problem? The thread was there 5 minutes before they sent me that email. I had a reply sent to me via that thread sitting in my inbox next to the ND staff response.
I mean guys… if you’re gonna lie to people making a legitimate complaint about a volunteer reviewer who is driving people off your site (several of them contacted me with similar complaints!), then you deserve being turned off by your visitors. There’s even a breakfast held nearby with people wearing badges of honor and swapping stories about durations of their time in ND jail or being banned from the site. The stories we tell…
BTW, their “community guidelines” change more often than my underwear (uh, daily, if you must know). JP Sears has an old video that is hilarious about “community guidelines” after he was censored on YouTube – go find it.
Oh, and track down last year’s annual report for them (KIND). It makes for entertaining reading (lots of whine and cheese). I’m looking forward to the next issue in a month or so.
The report actually states that despite several years of declining revenues and visitors they MUST keep the current leadership. (the definition of “insanity” is when you keep doing the same things and expect a different result)
When your “neighborhood” expands across a greater metropolitan area, just to keep the feed “busy”, you know they’re in trouble.
I’ve provided SEVERAL positive recommendations on changes that could be made, but none of them are implemented.
If you wouldn’t let the reviewers (aka the liberal ladies behind the blinds) be so nasty and vindictive, cater to their whining about violations involving the truth, stop pandering to pet poop postings and let people really discuss what neighbors discuss, you might have something there. But now, you’ve driven off most of your constituency and customers with liberal drivel.
Name changed to protect the oh-so-guilty. 😉
PS – I hope their institutional investors see this story and the comments and kick some C-suite butt there. I just can’t bring myself to buying shares and showing up at their meeting.
Being kicked off of Nextdoor’s woke leftist garbage site is a badge of honor!
I was a reviewer for Nextdoor until a few days ago. I got a report to vote keep or delete. It was from Nextdoors AI not an actual person. The post was about the bell ringers we have in town at 4:30 am on Veterans day. The post went on thanking all veteran’s. Nextddor reported it disrespectful. I of course voted to keep the post. I then took a screen shot of the post with my vote also shown in the same screen. I posted it on Nextdoor showing members how Nextdoor reports and seems to hate our military. Two days later I was not only fired as a reviewer but total deleted from Nextdoor.
“one big “Karen” clambake of angry menopausal harpies”
I take major offense at this statement! There are also guys on this platform who are worse than Karens!