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Uh oh not an AgEnDa! Because no one on Facebook/Nextdoor has an agenda, they're definitely not regurgitating the newspapers agenda at all either.

deltree7 3y ago
Facebook and Nextdoor at least has voice of the people, however wrong it is. It truly has both sides opinions. It captures the zeitgeist. I'll take that over any elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people writing about stuff through their biased lenses
- mulmen 3y ago
  I have some bad news for you. “Elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people” write about stuff through their biased lenses everywhere, including Nextdoor.
  - AlbertCory 3y ago
    I think you're missing the point, both of you. It's not people's opinions I'd be interested in 50 years from now; it's just what they were talking about. Everyone might have an opinion about some event, but it's the event itself I'd want to know.
    - mulmen 3y ago
      You’re right, of course. How many historical nextdoors are you aware of? For me, none. But is that because they don’t exist or just that no record survived? Social media is secret society.
      - AlbertCory 3y ago
        None. That's what I noted: all these neighborhood-specific social sites would be gold for a future historian. Or novelist.
  - GauntletWizard 3y ago
    The point isn't that those people aren't contributing, it's that you get multiple perspectives, even if all of them are skew. You can get extremely accurate positions with many highly unreliable datapoints. because even if they're individually highly inaccurate, where they overlap (and/or where their centroid is) is more accurate than any individual measurement.
  - deltree7 3y ago
    Then we really don't local news then. We capture university-brainwashed liberal perspectives in our NextDoor dataset. You clearly aren't getting my point. I'm arguing for 100 biased-perspectives over 1 biased-perspective
    - slyall 3y ago
      Except that 100 people are Nextdoor are not doing the "oversight of courts, local councils and school boards" except in exception circumstances. They probably aren't even reporting the final numbers in the local council election. Assuming NextDoor's dataset is around in 100 years (probably not) there will be some topics well represented. But you are going to have huge gaps in others.

deltree7 3y ago

Facebook and Nextdoor at least has voice of the people, however wrong it is. It truly has both sides opinions. It captures the zeitgeist. I'll take that over any elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people writing about stuff through their biased lenses

mulmen 3y ago
I have some bad news for you. “Elite-class, university-brainwashed, liberal arts people” write about stuff through their biased lenses everywhere, including Nextdoor.
- AlbertCory 3y ago
  I think you're missing the point, both of you. It's not people's opinions I'd be interested in 50 years from now; it's just what they were talking about. Everyone might have an opinion about some event, but it's the event itself I'd want to know.
  - mulmen 3y ago
    You’re right, of course. How many historical nextdoors are you aware of? For me, none. But is that because they don’t exist or just that no record survived? Social media is secret society.
    - AlbertCory 3y ago
      None. That's what I noted: all these neighborhood-specific social sites would be gold for a future historian. Or novelist.
- GauntletWizard 3y ago
  The point isn't that those people aren't contributing, it's that you get multiple perspectives, even if all of them are skew. You can get extremely accurate positions with many highly unreliable datapoints. because even if they're individually highly inaccurate, where they overlap (and/or where their centroid is) is more accurate than any individual measurement.
- deltree7 3y ago
  Then we really don't local news then. We capture university-brainwashed liberal perspectives in our NextDoor dataset. You clearly aren't getting my point. I'm arguing for 100 biased-perspectives over 1 biased-perspective
  - slyall 3y ago
    Except that 100 people are Nextdoor are not doing the "oversight of courts, local councils and school boards" except in exception circumstances. They probably aren't even reporting the final numbers in the local council election. Assuming NextDoor's dataset is around in 100 years (probably not) there will be some topics well represented. But you are going to have huge gaps in others.