The amount of anxiety I’d get just posting comments on reddit was insane. I’d spend a stupid amount of time rereading and editing my comment, and then there was still probably a 50% chance I’d discard it anyway. On Lemmy, after an adjustment period, it’s much easier. I don’t think I realized how hostile and toxic a lot of online spaces really are.

This is a really good point, I never thought about this. While we still haven’t seen the anti-adblock message from YT (Firefox + uBlock Origin on Linux Mint), we’ve been using Nebula more and more lately. It would be great if there was a similar service for quality kids content. As it stands we stick to just a couple YT channels for our 2.5 year old because of how much absolute, irredeemable garbage there is targeted at kids there. I can’t imagine how shit the ads are for them.