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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

somcak

@reay

For space news, I follow @badastro and @fraser both of whom are great at making the space news approachable and post pretty pics with alt text.

For nature pics, I follow @RiversideBryan who posts great pics of Jacksonville, FL. I also follow the hashtag MarshMadness (marsh pics).

For animal accounts, I follow hourly otter and capybara bot.