Post B78dHV6faPcTD0sj1U by poleguy@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B785EV4pqKMFo5QBBg by foone@digipres.club
2026-06-08T16:53:38Z
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so if teens are banned from all social media, what websites are left at this point?dictionary.com?
(DIR) Post #B785GB4PCPoEKs1IxM by kirby@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-06-08T16:54:23.344850Z
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@foone all the unregulated stuff like irc servers
(DIR) Post #B785JrrYYMbBvKlmDo by quixoticgeek@social.v.st
2026-06-08T16:54:25Z
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@foone Wikipedia?
(DIR) Post #B785Q5JXSEk5Nbp3my by miblo@mas.to
2026-06-08T16:55:40Z
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@foone too much like a book… banned 🔨
(DIR) Post #B785RSJ7S3ucyvHQR6 by kirby@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-06-08T16:56:25.561828Z
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@foone though those aren't websites. har har har. um yea dictionary.com
(DIR) Post #B785VNKFuoCwgogGRc by RandamuMaki@mstdn.social
2026-06-08T16:56:37Z
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@foone But the dictionary is full of bad words, like, "autonomy" ( https://www.dictionary.com/browse/autonomy ) which they're trying so hard to get rid of...
(DIR) Post #B785dtEr9DcJyyDPKi by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2026-06-08T16:58:10Z
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@foone ai chats
(DIR) Post #B785imznmmCs4JVg4e by stx@mastodon.scot
2026-06-08T16:59:06Z
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@foone They'll still be allowed to have ChatGPT encourage them to self harm though.
(DIR) Post #B786bBR18dYlVCB1e4 by fathermcgruder@jorts.horse
2026-06-08T17:08:54Z
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@foone a few teens at each highschool will launch their own Mastodon instances and the results could potentially be very bad.
(DIR) Post #B786jnGAOEAp8BCts0 by emenel@post.lurk.org
2026-06-08T17:10:25Z
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@foone no, it has too many bad words
(DIR) Post #B786slEzGXazTWvoDw by jimgon@hulvr.com
2026-06-08T17:12:01Z
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@foone dictionary.com has vice, sex, deviancy and nastiness.
(DIR) Post #B787c2IwfZdFQfN6bQ by shammers@mastodon.coffee
2026-06-08T17:20:14Z
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@foone Yahooligans!oh wait. fuck. nevermind.
(DIR) Post #B788JkxkVWVQNzIxRg by paulos@dice.camp
2026-06-08T17:28:07Z
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@foone gov.uk
(DIR) Post #B7894y7XP8VYnxObZY by foone@digipres.club
2026-06-08T17:36:44Z
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@quixoticgeek yeah wikipedia has talk sections, that sounds social to me
(DIR) Post #B78BdLf2aWaLZHaVVo by fool@brontosin.space
2026-06-08T18:05:13Z
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@foone teens will always find a way
(DIR) Post #B78DJscIY8HvtZ9KWe by foone@digipres.club
2026-06-08T18:24:00Z
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@fool oh yeah, definitely. I fully expect most teens will do exactly what I would have done, and work around this ban.
(DIR) Post #B78DTB4DJyrpiwdl0S by foone@digipres.club
2026-06-08T18:25:55Z
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like people joke that they miss when the internet wasn't just five websites crossposting shit at each other, but those five websites are all social media of some kind. If they're banned, what's left? Like any site I can imagine still being usable is just going to be something with a social element that's been turned off: read-only wikipedia, youtube-kids (no comments, only big creators?), websites for newspapers?
(DIR) Post #B78EFPNlOt6w1Qmaau by foone@digipres.club
2026-06-08T18:34:34Z
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@yakmacker that's where I grew up, and I turned out just fine [citation needed]!
(DIR) Post #B78EPtNuhtRvy7qt4S by mgleadow@mastodon.green
2026-06-08T18:36:31Z
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@foone government supported sites of truth, obviously
(DIR) Post #B78Exh7knXvhmyPZse by draeh@mastodon.draeh.org
2026-06-08T18:41:23Z
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@foone Even in the dial-up BBS days the driving idea was social discourse. Anything that allows user comment/discussion is social.By extension wouldn't these kinds of bans also include most MMO and other games that allow email/chat with other players?
(DIR) Post #B78EzFVURtxSiOFtCq by fool@brontosin.space
2026-06-08T18:42:55Z
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@foone best and safest thing we as a society can do for online teens would be to RETVRN to small forums with personal and highly opinionated moderation
(DIR) Post #B78H08fTYrhVhbThGi by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2026-06-08T19:05:25Z
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@foone Best as I can reconstruct I made that around '97 and it's still live: https://sgeier.net/its/text/finished.html
(DIR) Post #B78HDWbFtVUpgrt2vI by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2026-06-08T19:07:53Z
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@foone I'm pretty sure you just described the world "they" want for us.#sulk
(DIR) Post #B78LyG3Pd2W3nkb3Eu by websterleone@meemu.org
2026-06-08T20:01:05Z
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@foone I assume kids moving to IRC and Usenet to talk with each other, just like in the good/bad old days.
(DIR) Post #B78WcuIYQ6LLk2hVVw by jpm@aus.social
2026-06-08T22:00:32Z
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@foone the canonical answer is disney dot com, where every porn site redirects if the no button is clicked
(DIR) Post #B78dHV6faPcTD0sj1U by poleguy@mastodon.social
2026-06-08T23:15:01Z
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@foone neverssl.com
(DIR) Post #B78krSCSZNwkIYgGmG by foone@digipres.club
2026-06-09T00:39:55Z
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@kirtai yes