118 points by willmoss 2 days ago | 50 comments
arnaudsm 2 days ago
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.
spookie 2 days ago
Some discussions went pretty deep, others not really.
Moreover, they usually would spend time with us late evening watching interesting stuff. Given how open they were, me and siblings would ask about it too. They weren't the type that watched the most banal thing either.
I did end up visiting many strange websites. But the way they educated me never came second. I did start concerning myself with what I consumed.
Honestly it's better to open up, talk, keep up with what they watch but in a way that can be educative for them (i.e. question, discuss).
This is mostly things above 10 yo, granted. Before that I didn't have internet. But my friends did, and I did spend lots of time with friends.
My point is, it's better to confront with real life things sooner and have the time to talk. After 16 no one has time :)
notachatbot123 19 hours ago
anon7000 1 day ago
At that point, it gets very, very hard to have a meaningful conversation about what the algorithm chooses to show you.
So I’m not so sure any more. It’s clearly not healthy for kids to be addicted to social media, and how do you avoid that except by restricting use of those apps?
j45 2 days ago
Until they are, screentime and internet access should be regulated for young people.
Parents think their kids are safe at home but the whole world is coming into it.
komali2 2 days ago
The kids were utterly enthralled. I wish I could find a link to the video but it was just some autoplay on a smart tv and I never managed to grab it before leaving the party.
dbspin 2 days ago
jareklupinski 2 days ago
once we figure out feeding and waste management, entertainment over a low-bandwidth link will be tricky
dbspin 2 days ago
jareklupinski 1 day ago
when two roads diverge in a yellowed wood, blaze down the middle
kjkjadksj 1 day ago
arnaudsm 3 hours ago
paulcole 2 days ago
Are you going to use the same methods your parents used to do this for you/
mynameisash 2 days ago
ffsm8 2 days ago
* 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.arsenico 2 days ago
ffsm8 17 hours ago
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.
mewpmewp2 2 days ago
Scrapemist 2 days ago
93po 2 days ago
when older millennials were young, it was mostly television, movies, maybe some radio, and maybe some CDs/tapes. and as the previous person said, this was all extremely moderated and you didn't have unlimited access to most anything
mewpmewp2 2 days ago
Not really executions though, luckily.
kome 2 days ago
arnaudsm 2 days ago
mewpmewp2 2 days ago
I grew up with the Internet and people sharing shock horror sites with some very questionable content. It seems we all mostly still grew up fine.
arnaudsm 2 days ago
If my kid really wants to check it, it might be acceptable, but I'm not ok with an algorithm showing it by surprise.
mewpmewp2 2 days ago
It seems to me like a way to get your kid to not tell you anything in fear of censorship.
kjkjadksj 1 day ago
j45 2 days ago
Also, your experience won't be anyone else's. Assuming so can create challenges.
mewpmewp2 2 days ago
I'm not alone though, all the childhood people I grew up with that were exposed to this questionable content seem functioning fine now.
Although I would agree that people and especially children shouldn't use TikTok or addictive things like that, but I'm mainly talking about the content specifically.
candiddevmike 2 days ago
justusthane 2 days ago
dgreensp 2 days ago
It looks like it's a fork or repackaging of someone else's TikTok "clone."
The author's writing is fluent, but the whole thing is kind of odd. This is the Internet; the developer could be 17. Who knows.
baumschubser 2 days ago
They may be 17 or 57, why does that matter?
To me the Readme seems absolutely professional. Putting together some React UI lib, use Caddy, put it all in Docker, write a comprehensive Readme with everything there is to know about it and release it. Looks pretty standard (in a good way) to me.
Granted, the Tiktok reference is a bit clickbaity. But that's just Github in the year 2024, isn't it?
notpushkin 2 days ago
justusthane 2 days ago
Edit: The title is “TikTok feed for your clips” so I guess in a literal sense it is describing itself as “TikTok for X”, but I think that’s kind of like saying that something is “Uber for ridesharing”. Yeah, that’s just Uber.
sabbaticaldev 2 days ago
warkdarrior 2 days ago
butlike 2 days ago
KomoD 2 days ago
dtquad 2 days ago
Agree. It's interesting that people in tech still don't get that what makes Tiktok so much better than Shorts/Reels is TikTok's semi-manually curated recommendations. They algorithmically detect user interest clusters and manually curate high quality videos for the the biggest clusters.
spencerchubb 2 days ago
joelhaasnoot 2 days ago
voidUpdate 2 days ago
lasermike026 2 days ago