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119 points willmoss | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 09:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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arnaudsm ◴[21 Oct 24 12:43 UTC] No.41903559[source]▶
This is great for creating a media-garden for your children!

Kid content on YouTube and TikTok can be extremly disturbing, even for an adult. Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server.

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paulcole ◴[21 Oct 24 14:01 UTC] No.41904256[source]▶
> Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server.

Are you going to use the same methods your parents used to do this for you/

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mynameisash ◴[21 Oct 24 14:18 UTC] No.41904450[source]▶
When I was 16, nearly all the media I consumed was vetted/regulated by the FCC.
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ffsm8 ◴[21 Oct 24 14:44 UTC] No.41904737[source]▶
Really? I'm a millennial and most of the content I consumed came from

  * Initially various Warez sources (KDX , eMule etc) (2000-2005 I think)
  * later on liveleak, 4chan,  digger (2006-2007? Not sure anymore), 
  * Then stumble upon, 9gag (08-10)
  * finally ending at reddit (2010-2014, that was the year spez edited user comments. Very rarely used it since)
I vividly remember watching pretty fucked up shit back then, like racists executions of teenagers by police officers (South America) and a lot of sexual content, which is pretty disturbing from today's perspective if I don't completely misremember them.
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arsenico ◴[21 Oct 24 15:27 UTC] No.41905213[source]▶
However, none of that was fed to you by algorithms, but rather your own curiosity for weird stuff and your ability to find it. I am not saying that it is good or bad, but in my book, it is different from infinite algorithmic feeds we currently have.
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1. ffsm8 ◴[22 Oct 24 12:05 UTC] No.41913436[source]▶
> your own curiosity for weird stuff and your ability to find it

Ignoring the fact that my comment was about watching videos with age rating: Not really? The execution for example came under the name of some anime episode I wanted to watch back then.

Lots of trolls liked to upload terrible stuff under innocuous names.

But sure, once I was on liveleak things were moderately down to my own choices, whatever that means for a minor. It's also just as true today btw. The reason kids get these videos is because they're clicking on the thumbnails that interests them.