Post #2355697
2026-05-10 15:55 UTC
Replies (15)
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@danirabbit@mastodon.online 2026-05-10 15:57
We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?
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@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life 2026-05-10 16:18
@danirabbit@mastodon.online “I stared a company that created an operating system while still in high school” may be one of the coolest and simultaneously hottest things I’ve ever read. You’re like Kim Possible.
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@kirby@freerobuxextremist.com 2026-05-10 17:47
@danirabbit@mastodon.online strictly speaking social media: the rates of depression are also way up there now because of tweens getting jedi mind fucked into algorithmic induced insanity. intoxicating algorithms should perhaps be outlawed and client sided filters be made stronger and more obvious
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@plwt@mstdn.social 2026-05-10 17:52
@danirabbit@mastodon.online I remember seeing young people at both MozFest and contributing to various parts of Firefox and Thunderbird. They are valued for what they could do, the perspectives that they had (and led others to) and the continuity it offers a project. What OpenSUSE is doing is really not smart on many levels. Lets hope it is not a precedent.
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@vrek@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 18:57
@danirabbit@mastodon.online I understand and agree with you but I was really confused at first as I read it "I started elementary school as a high school student". My mind went immediately to a Billy Madison situation...
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@MagnusIdode@defcon.social 2026-05-10 20:36
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Absolutely, younger generations should have a voice in these matters, as their energy and perspective can offer insights that older individuals might lack.
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@the_infamous@beige.party 2026-05-10 20:47
@danirabbit@mastodon.online This is amazing
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@kyabetsu@m.campfi.rs 2026-05-10 21:14
@danirabbit@mastodon.online I tried to re-parse the first sentence of this post like 5 times before giving up and reading ahead to realize what it meant
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@martin_t@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 23:28
@danirabbit@mastodon.online I don't think "safely" is even relevant. I had unfiltered access to the net since I was ~12 and I turned out fine. A friend told me she started watching porn when she was 13 and she turned out fine. Yes, some people end up as NEETs/shut-ins/incels but those are outliers good for clickbait headlines. If we (decisions should be made by people, not politicians) are to restrict freedoms, we need sufficient proof of a causal relationship. Until them, age-restrictionists can fuck off.
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@jarhill0@hachyderm.io 2026-05-10 23:44
@danirabbit@mastodon.online I got my start contributing to open source as a high schooler. That was really important for me.
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@MrAptronym@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 00:40
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Young people are people, and they need the same things as everyone else.
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@meltedcheese@c.im 2026-05-11 01:09
@danirabbit@mastodon.online 100% agree. There is a huge range of contributions young people can make (and have made). In all fields, and I do not exaggerate. I used to be a special prize judge for the US national science and engineering fair. (Was Westinghouse, then Intel). Every year I was astonished by the work of students who were often very young. One year I met a young woman at the competition, age 13 or so, and she was brilliant. She was there every year with something new. A brain computer interface at age 16! The next year I got her a hosted day at Caltech to hang out, attend some lectures. Not your ordinary college interview. A well known professor of astrophysics told me later that she asked better questions than his graduate students! Caltech offered her a free ride, a stipend, a fully equipped lab, an assistant … she ultimately chose MIT which was closer to her home. She has had a brilliant career.
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@nwd@mastodon.online 2026-05-11 03:34
@danirabbit@mastodon.online This is very surprising to me because I thought it was a requirement to finish elementary before starting high school. This is a joke, and I’d like to apologize to you for making this joke.
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@radhitya@navi.lain.day 2026-05-11 12:26
@danirabbit@mastodon.online Thank you for your and the folks hardwork \o/
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-15 06:41
@danirabbit@mastodon.online It's also unfair to those young people. They're being treated like violent criminals, locked away from society, when they haven't done anything wrong. It's horrifying.