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I'm on a "local" social network that is just that - meant for your local neighborhood called Next Door.

I got some scrap furniture to build a desk, bought another desk, and gotten rid of old appliances using it. It's about 80% "I found this dog, have you seen my dog? Who's cat is this?" but since it's truly local it's a good way to find out when the water is coming back on, get pictures of the truck that hit the light pole and took out the power in your area and bitch about the the pothole in the street outside. One dude was moving away from my old nieghborhood, decided to go full cloud/streaming and just set a box full of about 300 DVDs, BluRays, and music disk by the curb. I grabbed that one up. There's some annoying advertising on it - in feed type - and I've had posts mysteriously disappear when trying to do a tasteful, one time only plug for my own business, but if I mention my own business in reply to a post they seem to leave it.

As for family/personal circles I use Friendica, it's got what makes Facebook appealing to family, but my family complains it's too complicate. I don't see it, and I've used a lot of different stuff over the years. Meh, more work....

I've found https://www.nextdoor.com/ to be a far more reliable source of what's going on in my neighborhood than anything else.

I concur. Our local discussions on NextDoor brought up issues that didn't even make the remarkably bad bi-weekly local paper. . .

I've found https://www.nextdoor.com/ to be a far more reliable source of what's going on in my neighborhood than anything else.

What about NextDoor? Seems like it's designed to do everything you're trying to do. The only problem I see is that it seems to be US only, but that's probably temporary.

It doesn't imply anything. It's very clear.

From Nextdoor Member Agreement:

Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor.com (collectively, your “Content”). We can publish your Content in your neighborhood website or to nearby neighborhoods as described in our privacy policy.

From Nextdoor Privacy Policy:

In some cases, we may limit your ability to edit or remove Content from Nextdoor.com.

It doesn't imply anything. It's very clear.

From Nextdoor Member Agreement:

Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor.com (collectively, your “Content”). We can publish your Content in your neighborhood website or to nearby neighborhoods as described in our privacy policy.

From Nextdoor Privacy Policy:

In some cases, we may limit your ability to edit or remove Content from Nextdoor.com.

It doesn't imply anything. It's very clear.

From Nextdoor Member Agreement:

Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor.com (collectively, your “Content”). We can publish your Content in your neighborhood website or to nearby neighborhoods as described in our privacy policy.

From Nextdoor Privacy Policy:

In some cases, we may limit your ability to edit or remove Content from Nextdoor.com.

There are many comments about the ownership of the posts and how if the poster owned the posts he should be able to delete them. I have a different view.

From the Nextdoor Member Agreement:

Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor.com (collectively, your “Content”). We can publish your Content in your neighborhood website or to nearby neighborhoods as described in our privacy policy.

Notice they say rights. The poster owns the posts in that the poster is responsible for the content and the site can not sell or copy the posts to other sites. Those are the general copyright laws. The issue comes in that by posting on the site the owner has given a copy to someone else, much like giving someone a book. The poster still owns the right to the post but not ownership of that specific copy.

This is from the Privacy Policy:

Data Modification/Deletion. You can delete your account by contacting us. Alternatively, you can delete most types of individual Content items. Deleting your account will delete all Content you provided, except that we may choose to retain Content incorporated into the neighborhood's conversations (and, as applicable, nearby neighborhoods); and we may attribute that Content to your name even after you depart. If we allow you to change neighborhoods on our site, we may retain your conversation contributions in your old neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods (and keep the attribution to your name) but allow you to move your profile to your new neighborhood. If you are the subject of an unauthorized profile, please contact us.

It looks pretty explicit that they will retain conversations.

There are many comments about the ownership of the posts and how if the poster owned the posts he should be able to delete them. I have a different view.

From the Nextdoor Member Agreement:

Content. You retain all ownership rights to the text, photos, video and other content you submit to Nextdoor.com (collectively, your “Content”). We can publish your Content in your neighborhood website or to nearby neighborhoods as described in our privacy policy.

Notice they say rights. The poster owns the posts in that the poster is responsible for the content and the site can not sell or copy the posts to other sites. Those are the general copyright laws. The issue comes in that by posting on the site the owner has given a copy to someone else, much like giving someone a book. The poster still owns the right to the post but not ownership of that specific copy.

This is from the Privacy Policy:

Data Modification/Deletion. You can delete your account by contacting us. Alternatively, you can delete most types of individual Content items. Deleting your account will delete all Content you provided, except that we may choose to retain Content incorporated into the neighborhood's conversations (and, as applicable, nearby neighborhoods); and we may attribute that Content to your name even after you depart. If we allow you to change neighborhoods on our site, we may retain your conversation contributions in your old neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods (and keep the attribution to your name) but allow you to move your profile to your new neighborhood. If you are the subject of an unauthorized profile, please contact us.

It looks pretty explicit that they will retain conversations.

Change all your details in the account settings, name, address, email etc.

Then, deactivate the account like they tell you in their help on their site.

http://help.nextdoor.com/customer/portal/articles/805273-deactivating-your-account

That's about it. Not even Slashdot will erase your old posts when you decide to quit here, nobody does that, it would ruin all the past conversations.

Discussion lists traditionally don't give you a right to delete previous postings: Usenet and mailing list archives are forever. One rationale is simply technical inability (archives aren't controlled by a central authority), but there's also a sense that deleting miscellaneous posts from archives fragments the record of past conversations.

So, Nextdoor has forums and discussions. It seems fair to me that they don't retroactively delete posts from those. Therefore they need to maintain some kind of attribution to the now-deleted account. So they can't fully delete the account, in the sense of wiping any traces, but they could just make it a non-operable "deactivated" account that still has the posts attributed, but can't be used anymore. They might agree to hide the profile in this case, as well. Turns out, that is precisely what they do support.