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Re:Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App... by vmurthy on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:57AM (#28549801)
>able to follow their friends and see their pics/videos/reels. That plus kid-approved verified partner content (like @pbskids or @nick)

AnecData alert : We tried Youtube kids in 2019 for about a day (for my then 4 year old son). We were so shocked to see suggestive content and other crazy stuff from "verified" and reputed (100k+ followers) that we uninstalled the app then and there. There's no worse insecurity than a false sense of security

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Re:Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App... by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:31AM (#28549998)
Yeah. Given the experience with regular social media platforms, the very concept of a platform for kid content, where the consumers are kids and creators are random adults from the Internet[0] seems insane.

And yes, I've heard all the stories about YT Kids, and even took a brief look. We're staying away from it. Some research + youtube-dl is our way of choice for sourcing songs for our kid to listen to.

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[0] - What do people expect? That content for YTKids / IGKids will be created by 9-13 years old?

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