Hi #Fediverse, I've got myself into a bit of a bind
I have been working with a local primary school to try to get them to adopt the fediverse either through Pixelfed or Bookwyrm.
However it's become clear that this exposes the users to too much risk if I use an existing instance.
So....if you were to be setting up a fediverse instance for a class in a primary school, what would you choose (Pixelfed, Bookwyrm, Mastodon etc) and has anybody done this before?
Many thanks for guidance!
For instance - if I went with a small Mastodon instance and didn't federate with anybody, presumably that would work? Same for other platforms? And then (potentially) could federate with other classes in the same or different schools?
@davidoclubb
I read that #tootik is designed to be nonaddictive, but it's probably then a bad example.
Setting up under 18s on the fediverse feels really dangerous though and at primary school age doubly so, even unfederated. You'd probably be better with a traditional web forum since that's easier to moderate (especially if you disable PMs)...
@dheadshot I will be trying to learn lessons for others from this...aware of potential pitfalls!