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1. Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 00:22:01 JST Shoq

   • Eugen Rochko

   @Gargron An elementary school teacher told me her school tried Mastodon for a few days, and had to end the trial when parents called to complain of random porn in their kid’s local timelines. She thinks accounts should be forced to specify whether they will be posting “adult content” so that all or most porn can be filtered out with a single preference. It seemed a worthy idea for consideration. (But I’m sure it’s come up before.)

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 00:22:01 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @shoq If elementary schools want to provide a safe social media environment for their kids, they can run a private, isolated Mastodon server for themselves. Kids below 13 are not allowed to use Mastodon as per COPPA.

   • Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 00:32:01 JST Shoq

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron Yeah, I explained that, but in her case, it’s for “media literacy” courses and they’d have to hand pick sources to create a sanitized environment. The cost of that would be prohibitive, unless done on a county or other regional basis. It’s yet another challenge.