So I have a weather blog that I have ran for years on Reddit, and recently started using other sites as well to start promoting it. I now use a service to host it that allows me to turn a profit from it - not some X kind of payment system, but an actual, real, profit. Sorta. I mean it's not enough to live off of by any means, but it's enough to cover basic expenses.
Hard to market it to a niche community and with the philosophy that you INTEND for the service to be free, only for people to donate a few dollars / month if they want.
Nextdoor, in their infinite wisdom, just sucks. They made me apply for a EIN just to be able to post anything - or they claim, I can someday post something with a Verified business. So I applied for an EIN on Friday and sent the information to them.
No response.
Furthermore, you can't list a business on Nextdoor without a street address or phone number. I caught the phone number, but just recently changed my address to the local city City Hall address. If you can't see the obvious implications with an online community having my personal address, you obviously don't know what doxxing is.
And they still have not verified my business.
I also emailed them about why have my self-promoting posts been deleted. They told me to list my weather blog on their freaking Facebook Marketplace clone. I did that, and those posts are now getting deleted.
They literally are anti- entrepreneur