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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.
For your teens, best you can do is make sure they use an ad blocker if possible and teach them how to vet info. I hear people at work say the stupidest "alpha male" sound bites and a simple Google search proves shit wrong 99% of the time, yet these idiots gobble it up.
Restrict the channels to be the good ones (3b1b, kurzgesagt, the gray cuber, lines that connect, twoswap etc) and put an adblocker on there and it just becomes an amazing resource for passive teaching
Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, Tim Traveller, Robwords.
xkcd, two minutes physics, sebastian lague, peza's work, CPG grey, branch education, ...
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.
There's lots of good content on YouTube but it's best curated and served offline. Jellyfin FTW
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.
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.