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I'm in my 30s, and wanted to create an account out of curiousity (and maybe because there might be good discussions that I would be interested in). The sign-up page asks for your birthdate, and then says the community is exclusively for people over 50. I have more friends over 50 than under 50 lol.

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I'm in my 30's and am in the same boat. A lot of my older colleagues and mentors are over 50 and won't use this service because half their network is excluded.

The most toxic people on Nextdoor and Facebook are over 60, are just a little bit racist as old people are, and haven't learned the social norms of internet use. Moderation is going to be a very expensive exercise for them if they don't want the site to turn full neo-nazi like Parler did seemingly overnight.

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