Michael Wood-Lewis joins us to talk about Vermont’s Front Porch Forum, the hyperlocal social network he and his wife founded 21 years ago, predating similar platforms offered by Nextdoor and Facebook. It ends up, as he tells us, that the secret to running a healthy online community of neighbors is healthy moderation and non-surveillant advertising.

13 A Non-Toxic Nextdoor with Front Porch Forum’s Michael Wood-Lewis

Reimagining the Internet is a production of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst, asking scholars, activists, journalists, and artists what is broken on the internet and how to fix it.

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13 A Non-Toxic Nextdoor with Front Porch Forum’s Michael Wood-Lewis

13 A Non-Toxic Nextdoor with Front Porch Forum’s Michael Wood-Lewis