Man, I don't want to raise Luddites, but reading this definitely makes me even more leery of letting my kids spend time online. It is NOT a fun thing to navigate as a parent, especially when so many other parents seem to just drop a screen in front of their kids and call it good.
I feel like sometimes I paint too dire of a picture - obviously most people who hang out in various Discords don't become crazed shooters or anything close to it. But there is a lot of dark stuff out there, and if I had a teenage kid I'd want to monitor what kind of online spaces they hang out in
Japanese users are still important to Xwitter, but they seem to know Bluesky as the place that can't afford to hire mods to enforce Japanese law, so they basically just use it to post uncensored nudes.
Man, I don't want to raise Luddites, but reading this definitely makes me even more leery of letting my kids spend time online. It is NOT a fun thing to navigate as a parent, especially when so many other parents seem to just drop a screen in front of their kids and call it good.
I feel like sometimes I paint too dire of a picture - obviously most people who hang out in various Discords don't become crazed shooters or anything close to it. But there is a lot of dark stuff out there, and if I had a teenage kid I'd want to monitor what kind of online spaces they hang out in
Japanese users are still important to Xwitter, but they seem to know Bluesky as the place that can't afford to hire mods to enforce Japanese law, so they basically just use it to post uncensored nudes.
This continues to be my favorite substack