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minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·24 days agoIt’s gamified social media. Toxic and recommend not letting your kids use this despite strong social pressures.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·24 days agoRoblox needs to dramatically increase moderation, but calling it social media is not true. It’s a game platform with a chat window in whatever game you are playing like every other online game starting with Doom in 1993.
minus-squareGrass@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·24 days agokids didn’t bully eachother for not playing doom
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoYes https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_networking_component#%3A~%3Atext=4+Code+structure-%2CPlayer+view%2CHexen+include+two+executables%2C+IPXSETUP.
It’s gamified social media. Toxic and recommend not letting your kids use this despite strong social pressures.
Roblox needs to dramatically increase moderation, but calling it social media is not true.
It’s a game platform with a chat window in whatever game you are playing like every other online game starting with Doom in 1993.
kids didn’t bully eachother for not playing doom
Doom had chat?
Yes
https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_networking_component#%3A~%3Atext=4+Code+structure-%2CPlayer+view%2CHexen+include+two+executables%2C+IPXSETUP.