I played Roblox with my kids for years and didn't find any shady shit. Not saying there is no shady stuff on there, but after 100s of hours either it's suddenly gotten worse, we somehow dodged all the shady shit or the media have exaggerated the issue. Take your pick.

I played with my kids because they desperately wanted to join in on the fun but the reports of it being pedo land made me create a rule of "you only play when we play together". We had great fun, have many fond memories of our time on there.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You definitely dodged the shady shit with that rule. Not just pedo land either, also the illegal child labor.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 13 hours ago

When my kids were younger I treated the internet like a large room full of strangers of all kinds good and bad. I wouldn't let my 8yr old wonder around on her own there so why would I on social media or multiplayer games.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This kind of reads like a catholic who brought their kids to mass their whole childhood and disbelieves that catholic priests are child molestors because they never molested your child. They don't prey on children with present caring parents who don't leave their children unsupervised. They prey on solitary, neglected, vulnerable children, or for catholics those who are willing to trust a priest alone with them. In roblox it's the same but without the implicit trust of an authority figure. The pedos probably avoided you. You didn't somehow dodge the shady shit, you inadvertently created a bubble of safety that prevented your kids from being preyed upon because there's so much easier prey around.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 hour ago

That's an odd way to twist it. I must have had "parent" tagged to my avatar so to avoid the nasties.