This is great for creating a media-garden for your children!
Kid content on YouTube and TikTok can be extremly disturbing, even for an adult. Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server.
My parents never restricted me access, but talked with me openly about movies, games, or websites they saw me using/playing when they came to my room. I didn't take any precautions, or fear their reactions... because they were open about things with me.
Some discussions went pretty deep, others not really.
Moreover, they usually would spend time with us late evening watching interesting stuff. Given how open they were, me and siblings would ask about it too. They weren't the type that watched the most banal thing either.
I did end up visiting many strange websites. But the way they educated me never came second. I did start concerning myself with what I consumed.
Honestly it's better to open up, talk, keep up with what they watch but in a way that can be educative for them (i.e. question, discuss).
This is mostly things above 10 yo, granted. Before that I didn't have internet. But my friends did, and I did spend lots of time with friends.
My point is, it's better to confront with real life things sooner and have the time to talk. After 16 no one has time :)
I thought things had changed after ElsaGate but I peeked into the airbnb room at a friend's party the other day and the kids were watching youtube, and it seems that type of content still has a hold. The kids were watching some really long video of this guy that kept making an AI-esque youtube-thumbnail style open mouth face after some 5 second event occured. E.g: Man runs into door, makes youtube face. Man tries to sit on toilet, but the toilet lid is down. He lifts it, and finds the toilet's full of colored balls, youtube face. Driving, shot of a speed bump, shot of him bouncing in his seat and hitting his head on the ceiling of the car, youtube face.
The kids were utterly enthralled. I wish I could find a link to the video but it was just some autoplay on a smart tv and I never managed to grab it before leaving the party.
16 is so old to be doing that still. If I were your teenager I would have hated that and would have been extremely embarrassed if my friends ever found out.
The README makes it sound like this uses TikTok, or at least that's how I read it. I think it's just an app that has a TikTok-like UX. You may want to reword things to highlight who would use this and why you built it.
>it's nothing like tiktok other than it being a vertical video feed
Agree. It's interesting that people in tech still don't get that what makes Tiktok so much better than Shorts/Reels is TikTok's semi-manually curated recommendations. They algorithmically detect user interest clusters and manually curate high quality videos for the the biggest clusters.
Any hints on optimal encoding for videos, to reduce storage and network bandwidth? I would go even for a compromise in video quality, to have them looking more akin to Encarta '98 videos, if it greatly reduces file size.
The concept seems great for video-based family albums. If there was a way to use ML to auto-categorize the videos into channels (rather than manually sorting them into folders), that would be amazing.
[+] [-] arnaudsm|1 year ago|reply
Kid content on YouTube and TikTok can be extremly disturbing, even for an adult. Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server.
[+] [-] spookie|1 year ago|reply
Some discussions went pretty deep, others not really.
Moreover, they usually would spend time with us late evening watching interesting stuff. Given how open they were, me and siblings would ask about it too. They weren't the type that watched the most banal thing either.
I did end up visiting many strange websites. But the way they educated me never came second. I did start concerning myself with what I consumed.
Honestly it's better to open up, talk, keep up with what they watch but in a way that can be educative for them (i.e. question, discuss).
This is mostly things above 10 yo, granted. Before that I didn't have internet. But my friends did, and I did spend lots of time with friends.
My point is, it's better to confront with real life things sooner and have the time to talk. After 16 no one has time :)
[+] [-] komali2|1 year ago|reply
The kids were utterly enthralled. I wish I could find a link to the video but it was just some autoplay on a smart tv and I never managed to grab it before leaving the party.
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[+] [-] paulcole|1 year ago|reply
Are you going to use the same methods your parents used to do this for you/
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[+] [-] dtquad|1 year ago|reply
Agree. It's interesting that people in tech still don't get that what makes Tiktok so much better than Shorts/Reels is TikTok's semi-manually curated recommendations. They algorithmically detect user interest clusters and manually curate high quality videos for the the biggest clusters.
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Can we get a video demo of this in action? Curious what it looks like in desktop, too.
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