I must state I lack any experience with parenting, but I have this to add:

Both Android and iOS have parental controls built in, just block whatever you don’t want your kid to access. There are tools out there that parents can install on devices that are basically spyware for their kids. Parents have to actually use the existing tools, at least what is built in with the OS of the device. Make the iPad not an addictive content serving machine, but instead something with hand picked games, or whatever other apps you trust. Even non tech savvy users could enable parental features.

When you get big enough, you are under more scrutiny and these laws are spreading more and more. I can imagine the Mastodon team is under lots of external pressure to start following these new laws. Mastodon won’t be the last to start thinking about implementation.

I hope it’s face verification so I can just point the camera at a guy on Google images or whatever to get it to let me in.

I got a big ass HDD I can store it all in if need be.

That explains the “sync” logs I’ve been seeing! Is sync a good user experience?

I haven’t had my shit up for very long, and HOLY SHIT the unique visitors numbers are nuts. I think this is because of federation, but mainly the images being loaded across other instances.

I looked at deflect and it ain’t gonna be cheap, the number will only go up, and I am the sole user of the site. Storing the shit in a media bucket or whatever would fix it, but I’d have to pay for that shit too.

Fair enough, one other guy said it should be the thin block above the one pointed to. Makes sense, and it can still be yanked from under you.

We need more than just one big instance, we should have many.

It really is like magic. Also happy cake day.

I fucking wish that was a conspiracy theory. At least conspiracy theories are fun, this not so much.

Still seems odd, because this server was just made, it hasn’t been offline for an extended period of time.