Absolutely not. Kids should be kept away from social media as it exists now. Frankly, kids need to be supervised on the Internet as a whole, because there's so much dangerous shit out there to hurt them.
Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within?
Submitted 3 days ago by biofaust@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
as it exists now. … need to be supervised.
Good thing he’s asking got exactly that.
cinoreus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah but what do you want the kids to interact with? There’s a lot of sfw stuff like politics and hate speech I don’t want kids to be near of.
Kids having unsupervised access to internet is just a bad idea in my opinion, no matter safe you try to make it.
Also the moderation issue someone pointed here.
I like the parental control idea of yours, because of this reason. Atleast it helps to certain degree.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 days ago
Raising children without involving them in politics is terribly cruel. Children are the future and will need to live in the world we create, so they’re the most important people to involve in the political decision making process. Greta Thunberg knows that.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
She’s not glued to tech bullshit and you don’t need tech bullshit to inform kids on politics
If anything having then sucked into online bullshit will dramatically reduce their political engagement and just turn them into another depressed and apathetic tech consumer
cinoreus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That only sounds good until you realise this political exposure is also the reason children are going the andrew tate route. It’s easier to influence children than it is to adults, and my point still stands, neither of these things must be shown to children without adult supervision atleast.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I think that could get really expensive. Also pedo’s have a habit of getting into trusted authority, how do you keep them out? They can’t even get those people out of the office of the president of the US.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Parents should parent their kids. If they are harmed by taking part on a platform, that’s on the parent. Parenting tools exist on the network and device level. But you might just want to trust your kid and let them grow up.
eleijeep@piefed.social 3 days ago
Why do you ask?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I can’t imagine the effort that moderating a project like that would require.
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Question is, is there anyone that is even suggesting to build a moderation tool for, for example, Mastodon, aimed at this specific need?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Right now the moderation tools available appear to be on the level of “thog bang rock on other rock - make smaller rock, easy to eat” and efforts are primarily aimed at introducing Thog to the concept of fire so he can at least cook his rocks.
The few automoderators I’ve seen attempted have been “ban you over a couple downvotes” bad, so AI content moderation seems like it may be a bit ambitious right now. It’s a good idea, but more work needs to be done before we’re at the point it’s feasible to start working on it.
Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I’m not talking about usability, just about the foundation. Besides what others already said about why it’s not a good idea to answer your specific question regarij moderation tooling is:
Your requirements are incompatible with decentralization. Every moderation tool will have to use the network itself which means a moderation event has a significant delay in which the content has a “head start”.
There is no way to have an instant kill switch for content or a centralized gated release of content.
And at the end everyone can spin up an instance and decide on moderation, after all - and decide on the moderation rules there. This will cause an even bigger delay until the malicious instance is blacklisted by others.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Moderation is the wrong answer. White listing is the right answer.