@Gargron An elementary school teacher told me her school tried Mastodon for a few days, and had to end the trial when parents called to complain of random porn in their kid’s local timelines. She thinks accounts should be forced to specify whether they will be posting “adult content” so that all or most porn can be filtered out with a single preference. It seemed a worthy idea for consideration. (But I’m sure it’s come up before.)
@shoq If elementary schools want to provide a safe social media environment for their kids, they can run a private, isolated Mastodon server for themselves. Kids below 13 are not allowed to use Mastodon as per COPPA.
@Gargron Yeah, I explained that, but in her case, it’s for “media literacy” courses and they’d have to hand pick sources to create a sanitized environment. The cost of that would be prohibitive, unless done on a county or other regional basis. It’s yet another challenge.
@Gargron I don’t think such a global porn filter wouldn’t be an imposition on most users. Admins could decide whether it was the default or not on their instances.
@shoq @Gargron unless we’re going to trust people to tag their content properly, there’s no way to build an automated system which doesn’t end up with bunch of false positives and negatives.
Maybe something similar to what Bluesky and Tumblr has could be useful, having a global filter option to what to do with specific type of content but how this content would be detected is a whole other problem with no clear answer.
@ahmetasabanci @Gargron That’s the point. She doesn’t want content filters. She wants entire accounts to be filtered. It wouldn’t be hard to force an actor to signify they will be posting adult content, and for instance admins to enforce them.
@ahmetasabanci @shoq @Gargron The professional women are starting to show up on Threads, and it is distinctly R+. Good luck filtering that, yet again.
@wndlb @ahmetasabanci @Gargron
Who are the “professional women,” exactly?
@shoq @ahmetasabanci @Gargron I guess I wasn’t clear. R or more than R-rated ‘shows.’
@shoq Wow, sorry they had to encounter that. Hope you (or someone else) can find a solution to this problem.