Roblox is absolutely torching their platform, in many ways besides matchmaking and the age verification. Ask any kid who's grown up with the game. Players are leaving in droves and Roblox has become quite un-cool in the last six or so months.

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xp84 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As someone who dislikes predator havens that are combined with addictive dark patterns honed to maximize children begging parents for Robux (or just stealing parents’ credit cards to get it) I couldn’t be happier to see Roblox collapse.

I’m sure what replaces it will be even worse though. :/

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phatfish 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> I’m sure what replaces it will be even worse though. :/

Hopefully not, it feels like regulation is catching up with the child exploitation. Once the giant platforms are dismantled and can no longer bully governments it will be easier to keep the smaller ones in check.

And no, "dark web Roblox" isn't going to be a replacement. Not matter how much the existing exploiters try to make it a scare tactic.

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subscribed 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No, it doesn't. Not long time ago a microblogginf platform run by a billionaire introduced an easy way to "virtually undress" real kids.

Outrage ensued, owner showed the middle finger to everyone, moved the undressing part behind a paywall.

Site is still supported by payment processors, still hosts accounts of all the major preas/government/NGO organisations.

There are some token actions from some governments but absolutely nothing that would happen of it was someone poorer running this site -- for example 4chan fights CSAM (as I understand), yet British Ofcom tries to issue a fine against them.

With Twitter generating CSAM though? Ofcom still have their account there.

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		Poor 4chan

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Aeolun 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can tell you right now that any kid that’s growing up with the platform right now couldn’t care less.

They don’t communicate in chat. They communicate by shouting at each other from 2 feet away.

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Aurornis 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Ask any kid who's grown up with the game.

I don’t have a kid who’s grown up with Roblox nearby to ask. Can you please explain what you mean?

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“thing that was cool to kids is not cool anymore” is not a new phenomenon, and the onus is really on you to show the causation.