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@ Constant
2025-01-21 00:51:00
A kid friendly app is doable, but i recon it will take a while before we get there; by its very nature it has a large amounts of requirements to serve its purpose well.
It is something that is in the back of my mind a lot though, not just content filtering, but also restrictions with what people they can connect/interact, based on your own social network as a parent for example.
I really think we can build seemingly 'open' online enivornments that are not dull, for kids of a wide range of ages to explore and interact in a safe manner full of interesting, entertaining and usefull content.
The reason i say 'open', is because i think the crucial part in all of this is that they dont have to all use the same app, and need to be in the same 'environment'/silo with the same rules. The kids with the strict parents and the ones with the more liberal parents can still interact with eachother regardless what app to the extend the 'policies' overlap. This mitigates the FOMO, alienation etc. dynamics that are ruthless among kids, and will undermine any attempt to 'shelter' them otherwise.
In this context they can gradually as they get older, work their way towards the 'no guardrails' hellscape that is the open internet.