Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within?
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Features I can think of:
- a system for stricter content moderation, especially something that would automatically delete NSFW/NSFL posts,
- no direct messaging,
- some kind of tool for moderators to efficiently review content,
- multi-layered access to an account to allow for parental control,
- time management tool that would not be based on the client, but with the session duration calculated through interactions.
U.S. ambassador gives prime minister the cover he needs to cut Canada’s F-35 order
U.S. ambassador gives prime minister the cover he needs to cut Canada’s F-35 order
At this point, the only commitment is to buy 16 F-35s. Mark Carney will be making the final decision on whether to proceed with purchases of another 72 of...David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Yahoo News Canada)
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What would happen is a tenth of the US Air Force would obliterate the token squadron of Gripens and then the ground troops would finish encircling every major Canadian city after freely advancing across the 9-fucking thousand km border.
Buying an American plane that you can't keep flying is stupid, but pretending Gripens, a full generation behind in technology, will even contest the skies much less let Canada fight back is delusional corporate brain rot.
Canada needs an armed population willing to fight a guerilla war and the rest of NATO coming in hot, not a money sink that only exists to pad expense accounts and make politician peepees feel big.
The paper pointed out that the F-35A, the variant being purchased by Canada, achieved a full mission-capable rate of only 36 per cent in 2023.
Your numbers are based on unsourced claims from RT lol
But sure bro, just trust your one squadron of Gripens will totally defend Canadian airspace from the US Air Force 😝
And then you’d have a few million Canadians that look physically identical to Americans becoming insurgents fucking up canadian infrastructure making a Canadian invasion expensive and troublesome. We’d never go after them with guns blazing, that would be foolish, we’d just make it uncomfortable and very expensive to be here.
America couldn’t win wars against 3rd world countries with a thousandth the resources of Canada and a visibly
different demographic. What makes you think they’d be any more successful here?
Brilliant.
A phyrric victory is one where the costs have exceeded the benefits that have accrued through victory.
Make no mistake, we would never be able to win in a modern conflict against America. Even if we dropped the entire original order of 80 F-35 aircraft, and used that money to buy 420 Gripen straight from Europe (ignoring domestic production and the lack of skilled fighter pilots, here), we would still lose any kind of air superiority push by America.
But (again, assuming sufficient well-trained pilots) we would definitely f**k up America’s ability to project air superiority by a massive amount. I would even call it a strategic disembowelling of America’s air power.
Just like hunting boar with a spear, the hunter risks the boar being so enraged that, despite being lethally wounded, it still force-impales itself the rest of the way up the spear to get at and kill the hunter.
The point of the Gripen isn’t to win against America. That is impossible.
The point of the Gripen is to have the majority or entirety of the Canadian Air Force beyond America’s ability to remotely restrict operations or shut down completely, such that the pain of any invasion dramatically exceeds any rewards and could even be a lasting semi-lethal blow to their domestic air capabilities as a whole.
Full on invasion is not the only risk. What if we wanted to support allies in protecting Greenland? What if we wanted to conduct an operation elsewhere in the world that the US disagrees with?
It is not impossible to believe the US oppose NATO from defending a county against Russia. That is the enemy the Gripens were specifically designed to fight.
Then volume is the tactic we need to work with.
Keep in mind that if we were to cancel the entire order of 88 F-35 aircraft, and use that money on Gripens, we would be able to purchase about 420 of them from Europe. That is before any cost savings of building them domestically, this is full sticker price.
Then also consider that quality of tools has never won a war: quantity has.
WWII - on both fronts - has demonstrated this superbly. Sure the Tiger was an exceptional tank, and was virtually unbeatable by a Sherman. The Germans knew how to build a quality machine that was years ahead of anything that America could put out. In fact, it took about 8 Sherman tanks - operating in concert - to take out a German Tiger; distracting it until a shot could be taken against one of its vanishingly rare vulnerable spots at exceedingly close range. And the number of combat-ready Shermans by the end of that skirmish was usually 1 or 0.
But when America had manufacturing capacity to pump out Shermans by the tens of thousands, it didn’t take very long before 10, 20, or even more Shermans started trundling over the ridgeline for every Tiger the Germans fielded.
At that point, despite the clear technological superiority of the Tiger, it was simply overwhelmed.
Almost every modern combat has had numbers win. Not quality, numbers. Especially among tech-similar forces. And the Gripen is the closest available aircraft to the F-35 in tech; certainly closer than the Sherman and Tiger were.
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U.S. ambassador gives prime minister the cover he needs to cut Canada’s F-35 order
The federal government is considering buying both F-35s and Swedish-made Gripens.David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa Citizen)
I know what he’s talking about: not against American pilots, but as make-believe American pilots.
Which is a good idea, but not perfect: American pilots will have noticeably different behaviours and tactics, and even personality types that are (generally) not found up here. While training against other Canadians in an F-35 is great, it’s not as good as training against Americans in an F-35.
But that’s the trick - how do we get America, using F-35 aircraft, to help us to train up our Gripen pilots?
And when our original order of 88 or so F-35 planes could, if completely cancelled and on a per-dollar basis, buy 420 Gripens straight from Europe, how do we get America to unknowingly train up so many Gripen pilots?
Pretty expensive training cost for the benefit.
Especially since, as Ukraine has shown, buying swarms of little drones can make expensive airplanes like the F-35 a non-factor.
I'm not Canadian, but as someone who doesn't like the US military, I'd advise you to cancel your contracts with the US, and buy lots of drones from China and Turkey, while you ramp up your local capacity to build them. Let the Americans choke on their own military contractor welfare.
I sometimes point to the F35 sales as an example of what it means to be an America ally, as China would never sell this level of weaponry to anybody.
It is amazing how fast Trump is dismantling the partnerships that helped maintain peace.
Yes, because even though America made a shitty fighter jet, it is their best fighter jet, and likely better than your fighter jet(when working), and they will sell it to you because they believe non-Americans can be allies.
China will never ally themselves with anybody else at that level. They are an ethnostate that purges minorities and redraws the borders to capture land from their “allies” like clockwork.
Quip if you must, but know the next hegemon in line will barely tolerate you as a vassal.
Your “friend” is threatening you. To invade your airspace and also…they don’t need anything from you.
What a bunch of moronic bullies.
Enough is enough, let them fall on their own sword. Canada can do without a friend like that.
Ode to the AA Battery
Ode to the AA Battery
Recently this post from @Merocle caught my eye: I'm fixing my iFixit soldering station. I haven't used it for a long time and the battery has gone overdischarge. I hope it will come back to life.Jeff Geerling
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UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza
The United Kingdom’s controversial rollout of facial recognition technology will rely on software that appears to have already been deployed in Gaza, where it is used by the Israeli army to track, trace, and abduct thousands of Palestinian civilians passing through checkpoints.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced on Monday that British police would massively increase the use of facial recognition technology used for surveillance purposes.
UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza
Concerns rise as UK partners with controversial facial recognition company used by Israel in Gaza.Simon Speakman Cordall (Al Jazeera)
Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data
Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data
Starlink quietly enabled third-party AI model training on its customers' personal data by default. Fortunately, there's a way to opt out.Jon Henshaw (Coywolf)
South Africa orders expulsion of Israeli envoy, declared persona non grata
South Africa orders expulsion of Israeli envoy, declared persona non grata
South Africa accuses Israeli representative of ‘gross abuse of diplomatic privilege’ as Israel orders reciprocal move.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
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Britain's Ministry of Defence agrees deal with Palantir
Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir
: 'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract StatesideSA Mathieson (The Register)
Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI
SpaceX has revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow the use of customer data for AI training, a shift that could bolster Elon Musk's AI ambitions.
Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI
Starlink has updated its privacy policy to allow customer data to be used to train its AI models...David Jeans and Joey Roulette (The Canberra Times)
Caitlin Johnstone: "Why Don't You Criticize Iran??"
I don’t criticize Iran because I do not want to feed into an imperial war propaganda campaign for a horrific agenda that I do not support. I want to focus my criticisms on the power structure under which I actually live, because that is what one does when one is not a groveling bootlicker, and because the power structure under which I live happens to be the most abusive tyrant on the world stage.
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I have a better reason:
The theojudicial government of Iran is fighting a pro-monarchy insurrection.
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is a lot quicker than six paragraphs about the workings of the US empire.
It never occurs to them to question who actually benefits from the western population chanting “IRAN BAD! REGIME MUST GO!” in unison like a bunch of animatronic theme park animals while the drums of war are beating louder and louder.
It never occurs to them that someone can simply oppose the warmongering agendas of the US empire on principle, because those agendas are reliably disastrous and the US empire is the most tyrannical power structure on earth.
These things never occur to them because most westerners spend their entire lives in a propaganda echo chamber which constantly feeds them stories about how evil the western empire’s enemies are, while telling them almost nothing about the empire’s own abuses.
Yep. I never knew much about him until now. He writes a lot about consciousness but the stereotype is that he writes about aliens and UFOs and weird conspiracy stuff. His book The Trigger is about 2 bibles thick and it covers a lot. Starting with the backgrounds of Cheney and Rumsfeld. Much of the book reads like investigative journalism. He sought information and points out contradictions in official statements.
At my local library we have 3 copies for the city and all 3 copies of Icke's book are currently in use. Somebody just put a hold on a copy so I'm going to return my copy. Pretty popular book, surprisingly.
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Ottawa is giving greenhouses a tax break. Will it help lower food prices?
Alberta’s greenhouse industry says a new federal tax program could make expansion easier, but it might not help to lower food prices.
Ottawa announced Monday it will allow producers who buy or build new facilities to more quickly write off the cost of capital expansions on their taxes — a change from the current rules that limit write-offs to 10 per cent each year.
That could improve cash flow projections, perhaps tipping the scale in a project’s business case.
But tomato, cucumber and pepper producers stress that operating costs have a bigger impact on food prices than capital costs.
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So instead of going after the BIG grocers who are raking in all the profits, Carney has decided to offer minimal help to greenhouse growers?
Jfc. :(
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
No. It will not help. Maybe in a competitive market it might, but Canada has been nursing an oligopoly for decades now, and oligopolies set their own prices based on what the public will tolerate.
Lowering prices requires either (a) breaking up the giants, or (b) offering a publicly-run alternative that somehow bypasses the vertically integrated supply chain.
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Laid-off Ubisoft workers rally, call on video game developer to reopen in Halifax
Laid-off Ubisoft workers rally, call on video game developer to reopen in Halifax
A crowd of Ubisoft workers and supporters held a rally, urging the video game developer to reopen the studio that was closed earlier this month after a successful union drive.Lyndsay Armstrong (Global News)
Laid-off Ubisoft workers rally, call on video game developer to reopen in Halifax
Laid-off Ubisoft workers rally, call on video game developer to reopen in Halifax
A crowd of Ubisoft workers and supporters held a rally, urging the video game developer to reopen the studio that was closed earlier this month after a successful union drive.Lyndsay Armstrong (Global News)
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Nah, he’s revitalized the party, brought in a new demographic of voters, and even gained the most seats the Conservatives have ever seen. Just cause he lost to Carney doesn’t automatically make him a bad party leader.
I think they’re counting on Carney to take on Trump, make some fatal mistake, and then swoop in whatever election comes next.
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Just cause he lost to Carney doesn’t automatically make him a bad party leader.
No, it's his personality, fecklessness, inability to have a thought that doesn't start with blaming someone else for something, smarminess and completely lacking empathy that makes him a bad leader.
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Toss the ass
Dump the dick
Turf the Prick
Fire the Fool
Damn. I should have joined the PC party and started spreading these around.
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It's really not surprising, it's hand selected delegates travelling to Calgary in winter... Anything less than 80% would have been shockingly catastrophic for him.
Honestly though, holding onto leadership is good, because he's lowered their ceiling of support so incredibly low. Yes his support base is large but he basically has no chance of getting the Conservatives a majority.
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He lost a 25pt lead in the polls just because Trump won and Trudeau stepped down.
That's it. He's so unpopular that he was winning in polls because people were just kind of done with the leader we had, not because of Poilievre. Two things happened that had nothing to do with the Cons or him and poof there goes the election.
He's a horrible leader, a worse human being, and he's the best thing for Canada right now as he is single handedly keeping the Conservatives on the outside looking in.
Was never even in play. For one, he keeps a firm grip on power inside the CPC and they make it pretty clear that anyone who goes against him will be attacked brutally and publicly for doing so. Then, on the voter side, if you choose your voters, the voters will choose you. The way they set up the leadership vote ensured those voting would be his base.
He and Jenni Byrne captured the party and keep a tight grip on it. Even though Byrne has formally been distanced, she's not.
In an extremely friendly and loivng manner - 🤗 please adjust your expectations 🤗. The very least so you don't get disappointed, but also to be better connected with the reality of fellow Canadians so we can take appropriate actions before we reach the point of a large PP (or equivalent) majority. Running a non-profit social media platform certainly helps!
I'm having a similar conversation with some RL friends today.
Well, this is a bit of a risky gamble. My first thought is "good, he'll prevent the Conservatives from making any gains given how unpopular and useless he is."
But of course my second thought is "that's what I thought about Trump running again..."
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Voting was only in-person and for delegates. The CPC have over 600,000 members nationally. They had under 3,000 eligible to vote on leadership, so <0.5% of members choose the leader.
Tells you a lot about the party.
Compare that to the other party also about to select a new leader, the NDP. In their process, 100% of members get a vote on their leader, no matter where they are in the country. People just had to join before January 28, and fees I think are as low as a dollar for people who couldn't afford it.
Night and day in terms of democratic process.
Is this true? I can't find a source about only delegates being allowed to vote. An ex-conversative friend of mine was saying that they usually send the ballots out by mail to any member in good standing.
Edit: doing more reading I don't think its 100% fair to compare this to NDP election. This was a leadership review not a leadership election. If PP lost this then a leadership election would happen that works basically the same as NDP leadership election in terms of who's allowed to vote. Second the NDP has similar rules about delegates to NDP conventions as far as I can tell. You can read both their constitutions here
Yeah, in 2022 they didn't use delegates and Poilievre won with 67% from several hundred thousand votes, but this time it was back to delegates again, as they did under Harper. Harper’s last win was 84% of 2,900 delegates. The exact number hasn't been released yet for this one I think, but estimates are 2,500 or so. Reporting is that 95% of delegates voted and 87.4% went for Poilievre. So, probably around 2,080 votes total for Poilievre.
That's why if you look at the coverage over the last few days, you'll read about Poilievre meeting with delegates behind the scenes in closed door meetings and trying to shore up votes. You're not doing that with hundreds of thousands of voters, but you can with such a small number deciding your future.
We'll probably get the exact numbers some time soon, but it'll be in that ballpark.
The 2022 election was an actual leadership election. This was just a leadership review. People who did vote weren't voting for a new leader. They were voting on if they still think PP should be leader. There wasn't candidates to vote for. It was a yes or no question. If he lost this election there would be a leadership election similar to the 2022 one you reference. The 2022 election was triggered by the previous leader stepping down just like the NDP leadership election has been triggered by Jagmeet stepping down.
I do think the system is a bit strange that they have a leadership review and it's handled by delagtes who only get picked if they are voted in at meetings in the different electoral districts. Makes it easy to stay in as leader if you can convince the right people to come.
But again what I said before stands. If the NDP did a leadership review at a convention they could do the same thing as the conversatives here cause the constitution allows for it.
Ah, okay. That makes sense. Appreciate the correction.
Not a great representative process for the NDP either in leadership reviews. The delegate system isn't great. Having a tiny percentage of the membership and only the most dedicated shouldn't be taken as wide support of the party membership. With modern tech it really shouldn't be so hard to do with more direct representation.
But, I guess the voters will have their say when a real election comes and the party will deal with whatever the consequence is.
Looking back now at the last NDP leadership review, I see Jagmeet got 81%, and then lost his seat and the party's prior gains.
Kinda crazy if you think from a Conservatives perspective.
You get to listen to 2.5hrs of how the last 10 years in Canada has been hell on earth due to the Liberals. Delivered by the guy who somehow lost one of the easiest election ever and extended your suffering.
Then the guy tell you to bring him back and the crowd applauds.
Will say given how things went down. Pierre and his supporters seemed to stack the deck for him to win.
Certainly seems more believablet that some MP's were waiting to jump ship if Pierre came back.
We just spoke to Sebastian Skamski, Poilievre's former spokesperson, for some initial reaction. He's even more definitive than Outhouse that this sort of result will quiet the naysayers and put to bed the idea of any more MPs defecting to the Liberals
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Unfortunately by all accounts they do have a chance even with PP as a leader. In a late Wynne or late Trudeau scenario, the CPC could very well win a majority. Doug Ford has been riding the wave since 2018. If the LPC hadn't pulled the Carney rabbit out of the hat, something that was far from certain to happen, we'd be saluting PM PP at the moment. We spent a lot of time and money to take Trudeau out and prevent Freeland from taking over the party. This type of maneuvre isn't common. The chance of failure is very high.
Over the short term they wouldn't win. By the time we get to the next election, it's not so certain.
Or they vote Con because Carney won't fix housing, and has a new housing minister that immediately said housing prices can't fall as its boomers retirement fund.
Liberals attempt to straddle the vote, they pretend to care about climate change for the youth vote, as they mass immigrate people into massive urban sprawl for the boomer vote. They straddle the conservative talking points about fiscal discipline as they leapfrog Trudeau level deficits.
Canada's population drops as country caps immigration
Canada's population declined by more than 76,000 people between July and October, driven by a drop in foreign students and temporary workers.Jessica Murphy (BBC News)
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Feels like a big opportunity for the NDP, honestly.Also a necessity. Carney will expire at some point and PP could win as "the only realistic option." Kinda how Ford won in Ontario in election after election against lame ducks. I'm not comparing Ford's political charisma to PP at all, but in a Wynne-like Liberal meltdown scenario, PP might win. Which is why it's very important that we choose a decent leader fot the NDP and strenghten the party for the next election.
He almost won if not for Trump.
What will the debate look like, he can just point to Sean Fraser and Gregor Robinson, what will a progressive say to that?
US envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza
U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire shortages of food and medical aid.Three months after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip, the internal message laid out in gruesome detail scenes observed by United Nations staff who visited the area on a two-part humanitarian fact-finding mission in January and February.
The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and “catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.”
But the U.S. ambassador to Jerusalem, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked the cable from wider distribution within the United States government because they believed it lacked balance, according to interviews with four former officials and documents seen by Reuters.
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Reuters saw one of those cables. The other four, also blocked by Lew and Hallett because of their concerns about balance, were described by four former officials.
Three former U.S. officials said that the descriptions were unusually graphic and would have commanded the attention of senior U.S. officials had the message been widely circulated within Joe Biden’s administration.
It would have also deepened scrutiny of a National Security Memorandum, issued by Biden that month, which conditioned the supply of U.S. intelligence and weapons on Israel’s compliance with international law, they said.
"While cables weren't the only means of providing humanitarian information ... they would have represented an acknowledgement by the ambassador of the reality of the situation in Gaza,” said Andrew Hall, then a crisis operations specialist for USAID.
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem oversaw the language and distribution of most of the cables about Gaza, including those from other embassies in the region.
One former senior official said Lew and Hallett often told USAID leadership that the cables included information that had been widely reported in the media.
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and representatives for former President Joe Biden did not respond to requests for comment about the fact that the cables never reached upper leadership of the U.S. government.
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Chinese scientists build first quantum network to hunt for dark matter
Chinese scientists build first quantum network to hunt for dark matter
A team of Chinese scientists has created the world's first quantum sensor network designed to detect dark matter, connecting laboratories over 300 kilometers apart in the eastern Chinese cities of Hefei and Hangzhou.CGTN
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From european car reviewers, i constantly hear they drive fine
But their software and such is annoying as fuck
Ive driven 1 chinese car and it was fine driving wise but oh god the software was crap
Ill be getting a european car
It's no surprise that European cars are the best and have been for centuries.
It also makes sense they have the capital to make the best EVs and software, but they are also expensive.
Chinese cars are cheap, but they are probably worth it if you do the pros and cons.
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A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …Simon Willison’s Weblog
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in reply to biofaust • • •What do you expect that to do, on a technical level?
Because if all you want to do is the societal result, you can use any existing backend and configure it to disable federation except with other servers with the same goal. Unclear what you are trying to achieve.
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in reply to schnurrito • • •Well, already knowing if anything like what you described exists it would be great.
Also, maybe an application or instances that would have implemented:
- a system for stricter content moderation, especially something that would automatically delete NSFW/NSFL posts,
- no direct messaging,
- some kind of tool for moderators to efficiently review content,
- multi-layered access to an account to allow for parental control,
- time management tool that would not be based on the client, but with the session duration calculated through interactions.
Thanks for your observation, I will add these ideas to the post description.
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in reply to biofaust • • •There isn't, the only posibility is creating an own instance of Mastodon or whatever, where you can implement the corresponding rules and filters for kids.
The fediverse as such can't never be safe for kids, due to it's own structure if safe instances are federated with such which are not family safe.
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Alternatively social media, specific for kids
internetmatters.org/resources/…
It is always needed to educate the kids about the risks and for an correct and safe behavior in the network, using safe search engines, eg.SwissCows, private and family safe by design.
GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls
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