- Ive been spending alot of time driving lately and I heard again about the impending ban on social media for under 16yo children in Australia.
It made me wonder whether there is as opportunity/ use case for #ActivityPub based solutions that allow schools / community groups to offer accounts to their parents - that could be then used by those parents to offer moderated/ controlled child accounts (for their children).
Parent accounts would have vistability and potentially control over who child accounts can follow/conmunicate with. Schools could use it for communication with parents and/or pupils.
Honestly this all feels like overreach. The internet used to be a place where you learned to navigate things yourself, and parents actually should pay attention to what their kids were doing online. Now every issue gets framed as “we need more government control,” when really it’s just a parenting problem. ActivityPub-based “school-approved social media” sounds like another step toward normalizing controlled, sanitized platforms. Governments already use “protecting the children” as justification for grabbing more influence over social networks, and this just feeds into that. If parents don’t want their kids on certain apps, that’s on them. Teach them, supervise them, set boundaries. The solution isn’t to reshape the entire internet into a locked-down version of itself.
Always main reason to control something more and censorship are - terrorists,illegal trading operations,children protection,digital piracy,
@anon5621 I was thinking that ideally the services would be run by parents or community groups or perhaps Parent Teacher associations. The main thing was that there would be a #commonbond between the group of people using the server.
Seems like a good solution! I don’t know of anything yet, but doesn’t seem too far fetched
@ademir I was thinking the child account could be a function/ feature added to #mastodon or #freindica
