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Stuff for kids? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by Fierro@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been thinking about this stuff for a few years now but never actually put any effort into looking it up until now, I wanted to know what is out there in terms of self hosting services for kids, not necessarily just parental control but rather stuff for kids to do that aren't just device isolated apps.

To get the conversation started, I've had the idea floating around my head for a few years of making some local "youtube" for my kid to upload their own videos at some point, maybe throw in some family edits and stuff like that to get the feeling of YouTube without the exposure, same with some sort of social network like a basic blog (wouldn't have much interaction, I know, but at least have the option)

Then, I just found this video on youtube (vertical video warning for anyone who cares) which seems to do a few things of that nature, doesn't seem like it will be foss, personally that's not a requisite for me to use stuff but given its for children focused stuff it doesn't sound great to me at first glance.

What else is out there? What do people piece together out of general projects? Do people even go anywhere beyond hosting their kids dvds on jellyfin/plex and calling it a day?

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[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

here's what i've spun up so far that ive gotten the kids using

  • xmpp for chats,
  • emby/jellyfin
  • luanti
  • mealie
  • calendars
  • webdav for retroarch cloud
  • home assistant/mopidy/navidrome for music (all they see is home assistant).

probs more but can't think right now

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty much my list, as well!

Luanti is great, and the server can nearly run on a potato. Maybe literally, I should try it on a LePotato (Raspberry Pi II ish SBC) some time.

Jellyfin for guiding the kids to a more thoughtful non-algorithm set of things to watch has been great.

Although, for as much effort as I put into Jellyfin, my kids are as likely to drop a DVD into the DVD player, anyway.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

webdav for retroarch cloud

HOW DID I MISS THIS AS AN OPTION???

Amazing, thank you, going to be setting this up over the weekend....

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 2 months ago

enjoy! this is what actually introduced me to rclone and webdav in general, as crazy as that sounds!

the ripples of evolution from this new skillset being introduced to the homelab are still being felt