I'm a parent, a dev, but I don't use nostr. 😙
Congrats on launching. I think this is an incredibly hard problem to tackle and i admire your ambition to have a crack at it. Allowing YT content is smart i think because if we have to start from zero it's gonna take thousands of people like you.
I'm gonna share my experience, maybe it helps
The way i have managed it so far is that i could keep my eldest off of YouTube until 7 or so. With the oldest it's easy because they have no older siblings to spoil them with it.
I started off with youtube kids and that worked ok. I think most content is pretty bland with no bad intentions but definitely a bit too mind numbing if you ask me. I kept a constant watch over it and there were a couple of times where i forbid something completely. I am doing the same thing with my youngest now even though she started at 5 (7 now). It's a lot of work but she mostly only watches something for 10 minutes while we do her hair so she does not care about the pain it potentially causes. My wife or me is always present and we decide if it's ok or not.
My oldest is 11 now and at some point i decided to just go with pipepipe. It prevents algorithms from kicking in and it does not do any suggestions. I let loose of the idea of curating every channel or video before she starts watching because it simply has become too much effort. She has like 5 or 6 channels that she watches 90% of the time. I go weekly through the history to see what she was watching and if it was something i do not approve of i think of a proper way to explain it to her instead of "i think this is stupid so therefore you cannot watch it". We have been doing this for about 2 years now and i must say that she hardly ever deviates from specific channels. Definitely about 10 channels have come and gone and other videos she watched are sporadic. I do occasionally skip through the vids myself to see if they are ok, but usually the content on a channel is very similar.
I also think that context is much more important than content. I also do not want to become too much of a control freak. So explanation on why i do not want her to watch something is ok, even if she already watched it. I know it could backfire and she might watch something i wished she didn't watch but i accept that this can happen and deal with it then.
Jeroen Ubbink
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