Trusted circle = Your KIDDO’s safe screen
Whether you’re a parent yourself or not, sure you already know the dopamine trap: endless scrolling — just one more like, one more video, one more feed. No matter if it's a laptop, tablet, or phone, even the most innocent intention can quickly turn into hours of passive consumption. While this habit is addictive and harmful for adults, its effects can be even more damaging for children and teens. Here, it's not just about how much time they spend online, but also what they can run into along the way.
And, let’s be real — all the recent regulations with forced age verification aren’t fixing the problem. They’re just packaging a bigger agenda of data harvesting and total control as "protection". No surprise, big platforms know exactly how to play their game. In fact, they’re deliberately engineered to flood our brains (and our children’s too) with all the crap that turns us into zombies — the kind who quietly consent to whatever rules the gatekeepers decide to set.
That’s exactly where a recent development built straight on Nostr steps in — and hopefully fixes the issue for good in the long run.
📍💡 Kubo.watch is a child-safe video platform developed around trust instead of algorithms. To be precise, it’s based on a curated list of profiles that helps parents decide exactly which people, feeds, and content their child can interact with.
Instead of letting a platform decide what your child sees, Kubo uses webs of trust: parents can create an online environment shaped by family, friends, schools, creators, and communities they actually know.
The platform launched just a few weeks ago and is still very much in its early 'baby stage', so it may need some improvements. But it’s already creating a solid proof of concept for something I hope to see much more of in the future: a broader “kids-safe internet” infrastructure. Built on the very foundation of Nostr, by people for people, without asking permission from any corporation.
Since Kubo is already available for testing and playing around with — I’d encourage you to give it a try and share your feedback directly with the developing team: Sebastix, Constant and Jeroen.
HUGE respect to them for recognizing a massive issue in today’s internet and actually taking visible action to solve it. And honestly, in my opinion, that’s exactly what Nostr was always meant to do — taking one of the biggest everyday headaches (and hidden agendas) big tech has created for its users and keep fixing them with the very power of the unbreakable protocol so many of us already love.