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Afternoon, all --
My 14-year-old is considering joining Masto and has some pretty specific interests.
Rather than having them go through the wild west of the global Masto feeds to find accounts of interest like I had to -- that was a loooong process for me initially when I joined, when I had to curate a list of follows by checking out random-ass feeds from everyone everywhere, and it was very much
Post in Tamil
Post about German politics
Dad Joke
Gay porn
Deep dive question about Linux
More Tamil
Photo of tree reflected in lake
GAY. PORN.
Quippy web comic...
-- so to spare the child any undue mental trauma, a) what advice would parents of young Mastonians have for keeping things age-appropriate and practical? And b) could anyone please suggest teen-friendly accounts covering any/all of these topics for me to scope out:
Animals/Oceans (I know of some Hourly/Daily animal photo accounts, but throw them all my way)
Space/NASA
Drawing and animation
Nature
Therian
Caves and cave diving
Creative writing advice
Age-appropriate fan fic
@reay @alcinnz I think the only way to put a child on the Fediverse safely would be an allowlist "island" network for that purpose, where you only federate with servers that are on board with supporting children. https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/islands
Any open federated server could be surprised by a new e.g. Nazi server that hasn't made it onto a block list yet. If you can tolerate an occasional moderation failure like that, then an island may not be necessary, but many parents would find that unacceptable.
@skyfaller @alcinnz Read the link and that’s already well over my head, unfortunately.
Are Islands already things I can go investigate?
@reay @alcinnz Yes, the first example is the ION network: https://codeberg.org/oliphant/islands/src/branch/main/ion
To be a member, a server must federate with all other ION network servers, but can also federate with any other servers that meet their moderation standards. Ask @oliphant if you need help.
There is also an allowlist network run by ex-Cohost users which is currently exclusive, meaning a member server can only federate with other Website League servers. https://websiteleague.org/
Neither is explicitly child-friendly