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Children, Self Harm, Suicide

I saw this video and aside from it being more than heartbreaking, and more than depressing, it made me think. all the new #fedi22 people I've been following have been adults But that's obvious based on who I am and follow. Has anyone seen any uptick in teenagers switching from mainstream socials to the fediverse?

Of course a different question is if and how they *should* be on social media, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.

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I joined Linuxrocks as a teen, and found it super welcoming. In fact, despite joining many other forums and such since, Linuxrocks is the only place I still use regularly.

My little sister, who is now a teen, is not on the fediverse, but she's not on any social media as such, and just talks with her close friends.

Of course as her loving brother, I tell her all the time I love her, and sit and hear her out whenever anything's bothering her.
But I digress.

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@OpenComputeDesign I am also one of the fediverse's young members (19 now, 15 when I joined). I know a few (basically my friends, some of whom are a little younger than me), but we're all tech / FOSS nerds, so aren't really representative of the wider teenaged population. That's why this interests me.
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that's also why I'm keeping whether teens should be on socials at all out of this. For me it has been a life changing experience, and first YouTube, now the fediverse and the wider internet, have lead me down the path to FOSS, programming, sys-admin, and made me countless invaluable friends along the way. But for whatever reason, I've never once contemplated anything like self-harming, and I know my story is very different to a lot of others' experiences
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