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eli@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

YouTube

I have two kids and I won’t allow them to watch YouTube until they’re teens or if I watch the vids with them.

Between ElsaGate, disinformation, sexism, and just disgusting ads that play on there…and then there’s YouTube Shorts for brainrot…you can’t just blindly allow them access. Even the “kids” version of YouTube is fucking terrible.

I download Ms Rachel’s videos and play those from my Plex server for them if I need a break or have chores/dinner to do and need a hour to distract them. No ads or auto play videos or anything else.

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polotype@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Restrict the channels to be the good ones (3b1b, kurzgesagt, thegrau cuber, lines that connect, twoswap etc) and put an adblocker on there and it just becomes an amazing resource for passive teaching

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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, Tim Traveller, Robwords.
  
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  - polotype@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    xkcd, two minutes physics, sebastian lague, peza’s work, CPG grey, branch education, …
    
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starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m pretty much in a progressive bubble on YouTube, but I had a look at the “hyped” list yesterday and it’s all right wing extremist bullshit.

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redsand@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There’s lots of good content on YouTube but it’s best curated and served offline. Jellyfin FTW

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- eli@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Jellyfin is great! Unfortunately I’m neck deep in Plex…been using it for 10+ years now…I have a Jellyfin instance spun up but sharing it out to others is a pain, but works well on my Tailscale.
  
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Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My son is obsessed with Lego videos. There are a few good channels on YouTube. I only let him watch when I’m in the room with him because it gets shady real quick.

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