This could potentially be done with an identity system that allows a company to verify the age a user while not knowing anything else. Although I trust pretty much nobody to do it while respecting privacy and security.

lol! Never change lemmy.

Less interaction, probably. It's been >20 years since I even went to the site, so my take is probably old and useless, just like me. The only interactions between people were the 'fights' where you might have seen their name for less than two minutes. There was a forum where you might have talked with people, and a 'newspaper' where people could submit stories. I think that's actually where I found my fondness for fanfiction. There are always a few gems hidden in the galaxy of rotted milk that exists in the written word.

I notice you have no actual refute, interesting

I’m not here to argue, therefore- there’s no need to refute. I don’t see conversation as sport. I am not arguing, the tire I need not “refute”. I added my opinion into what I assumed was a public discussion. I make no apologies that you dislike or disagree with it.

You don't have to apologize for having silly brain. It's not your fault.

Classic lemmy!

yea, fuck those kids, they surely had it coming /s


Right! lol… I forgot. All people rage when an edgy debate bro declares themselves the winner of a non-existent argument just because someone doesn’t want to waste their time. And by all means, please post some more of those sick memes bruh! I swear I’m not blocking you after I post this!

Not what I'm saying. Just saying that there's 131 million players and blaming Roblox for like 40 incidents is dumb. That's like 0.0000012%. 700 kids a year die from being hit by cars. 900 kids a year die from drowning. 500 kids every year are murdered by their own parents. Saying Roblox is to blame when it's such a comparatively small amount of everything else in the world is stupid. You can't sterilize the planet from danger. Roblox isn't even a blip when compared to most other things.

Imagine the levels of depravity and lunacy you have to sink to to just accept this happening on your platform, to see the harm you are causing society but choosing to ignore it because profits come first. That’s why CEOs are a disgusting stain on this world, among others. They have ejected empathy and decency and become profit-driven, capitalism goblins.

Roblox is one of the most evil companies in the world, actively exploiting children for profit and for cheap labor. A joke for safety guardrails (you can’t even restrict your child from adding anyone as a friend or restrict them from receiving friend requests from total strangers, all you can do is block them after the fact). They allow children to create accounts with no email or verification so that they can get around parental controls and engage with predators if they are motivated and resourceful Evidence of predators abusing children on their app and their response is to silence the people shining the light on it. There may be good things that come from Roblox but it’s ran by some of the most despicable people and is a net negative in the world in my opinion

Weren't there also player run shops, complete with fully HTML customizable store front pages? Also weren't fully customizable html home pages, not unlike MySpace pages, a thing in Neopets? I could swear I had one, but maybe I'm remembering wrong? Also there was a private message system if I recall correctly that could be used to send a message to any other Neopets user.

Alway the hidden endboss surprise.

I remember the shops, but not any interactions through them. I don't remember much other than setting a price on items, so maybe there were opportunities there. And yes, private messages were a thing.

> And we would not want to shut down the entire internet to prevent a single bad thing from ever happening. And this is the point where I think the author can go fuck themselves. Children are not statistics they're people and if we're not willing to go to the absolute limit to protect them we do not deserve an internet.

When you had a shop you could set up a store front page using HTML and in doing so could use your shop to broadcast messages to other players.