I’ve thought for a long time that a Mastodon instance administered by adults would be a good solution.
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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Likely won’t work.
Buuut, what if the government made an alternative social media kids could access?
All while making access to adult social media extremely inconvenient (at this point the big ones should require IDs I’m sorry internet freedom bros I don’t see another option).
This kid-friendly something where rules are more strictly enforced and moderation could end up with the kid’s school being told about the kid saying the N word or whatever, to teach kids that with free speech comes the responsibility for one’s speech and it’s consequences, plus that could also just repell them from the concept outright.
This social media would have no data harvesting/personalized algorithm, no encryption and full ID checks on sign ups and 100% human moderation, just chronological sorting and a paginated feed, with filters by local and country-wide, and parents would have to pay a small fee for it.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 week ago
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 week ago
I remember entering an incorrect domain/regex to an Automod config once. Thankfully because I checked the logs often it only happened for a short while, and people didn’t get too mad.
But then you have really incompetent operators like those censors over in Italy and Spain with PiracyShield™ etc
I mean - 30mins for them to block Google Drive nationwide is something I think no-one wants, without some level of accountability, but when you’ve got dickheads like me that can regex out Nigella Lawson Pr0n accidentally, is scary.