When Tech Giants Invite Conversation — and One Platform Shuts It Down

I took a step back and did something simple:

I reviewed how #Meta, #X, and #Amazon use their official LinkedIn pages.

Different businesses. Different models. Same conclusion.

✅ They allow comments.
✅ They allow public engagement.
✅ They allow customers, advertisers, investors, and critics to speak.

These companies understand something fundamental: you don’t build trust by muting the audience. You make it by listening — even when the feedback is uncomfortable.

Now compare that to #Nextdoor.

#Nextdoor’s mission centers on connection, neighborhood dialogue, and community trust. Yet on LinkedIn — one of the most visible public-facing platforms — comments are routinely disabled, selectively removed, or discouraged altogether.

That raises fundamental questions:

- How can a company succeed without the voice of the customer?

- How can advertisers trust reach and engagement metrics when dialogue is suppressed?

- How can shareholders assess leadership when questions are blocked instead of answered?

Ultimately, these are executive decisions.
And those decisions rest with the CEO, Nirav Tolia.

From a market perspective, the contrast is also telling:

#Meta, #X, and #Amazon operate at massive scale, with clear market caps, transparent engagement, and open feedback loops.

#Nextdoor (#NXDR), by comparison, operates with a far smaller market cap and a large number of outstanding shares — meaning trust, engagement, and credibility matter even more, not less.

You don’t grow a platform by insulating leadership from reality.  You develop it by facing the conversation head-on.

If the world’s largest tech companies can handle public dialogue on LinkedIn, the question becomes:

Why can’t #Nextdoor?

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