There is a community here, maybe I need to try to get people engaging in it, starting a game thread etc…

Actually, in my case reddit forced me to obtain answers without visiting the site because it is hostile to me… I’m clearly in the minority along with you all :). But, while I’d love the real users there to move here, reddit the company can rot.

Making me log in, to view anything will just further remove my eyes from anything created there. I only visited a couple subreddits (primarily my local soccer team’s game thread) to view the comments. Since I deleted my account 3 years ago I guess I’m going to miss out on that.

Twas, but a joke…

It’s insane for a product whose price has gone through the roof before the ram shortage

I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to unplug them at the end of each day!

Or won’t put it behind a paywall (connect+) eventually

Ya, there’s no easy fix and I’m not an expert but it seems most of my kids friends (parents) version of parental controls on their devices was “Good luck, we’re all counting on you”

It needs to be easier for the average parent l. I bet if you put a hard roadblock in front of Google, Apple, Microsoft regarding not being able to release an app, an os unless it met some formalized level of parental controls and they’d figure it out pretty quick.

Ya my kid is 16 now and the total lack of any real unified parental controls has been extremely disappointing through the years.

For the longest time my kid was on android phones (because I’m on Android phones) which had family link which did “ok” but not enough control, YouTube for example was too restrictive based on age and I couldn’t adjust it.

Windows PC had family safety which also had various random controls but they really only worked for straight up Ms products (so edge was installed) and locked down installing other browsers

Neither of these are great and they require someone to dig through, setup, and ADMINISTER these things

I added pihole into the mix because I’m me and was able to. Trying to further filter my kids’ access to things I didn’t want them to stumble onto.

Now enter roblox which in reality I should have just said no and not them on it. But that did IMHO lead to discord which much like Roblox if you have “Discord” the door is now open to adult content.

Discord, unless I hover over and block servers (at domain) or through hovering, discord was another gateway to adult content.

No unified way to protect kids and these tech companies didn’t help

“Adult content” just means anything not appropriate for an 8yo politics, war, porn whatever…

All these gateway applications companies should be responsible for those lack of containment restrictions for kids, or tying into something unified would have been even better.

A true nightmare managing all that!