Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

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Should PeerTube potentially have a dedicated “Kids” app? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Teknevra@lemmy.world to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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For YouTube, there’s a separate (super terrible, barely functioning) YouTube Kids app that filters out non-kid-friendly content and only shows videos suitable for children.

Do you think PeerTube should have something similar — either officially made by Framasoft, or created by a third-party — that’s PURELY for kids’ content?

It could help parents and educators safely guide kids toward age-appropriate videos, while still being part of the Fediverse.

But it might also fragment the user base or require a lot of moderation work.

What do you think — would this be a good, or bad, idea for PeerTube?

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[–] 56_@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it might make more sense to have a child friendly instance, that is heavily moderated, and only federates with selected instances. I'm not sure how an automatic filter would be able to reliably block inappropriate content.

[–] oneguynick@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is a great point! Easier to separate the instance

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 11 months ago

At least a filter. Cause there's some strange stuff on there sometimes lol.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

It seems like it would be easier to create a toggle setting in PeerTube?

[–] oneguynick@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love this idea. I gave up on YT Kids because the default allow was too difficult to lock down.

[–] Teknevra@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm just curious, would teenagers be included in the (hypothetical) PeerTube Kids app, or should there potentially be (hypothetically) another third-party app, but called something like PeerTube Teens, or something similar?

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 11 months ago

Yes! I've started a Peertube Index, ptindex.btfree.org, and was planning to eventually do the same for kids. However, I don't know of any children specific instances atm to even begin one. I've thought of starting a children's instance but there's barely any request for regular Peertube atm. Also on my very long todo list is a Sepiasearch that's moderated and eventually a child friendly one.