It's a very different world now. I spent a lot of my life with no form of social media. I was into things like bulletin boards before most people were online, but that was mostly a culture of geeks. Even my kids came to it relatively late, but now kids start very young. I feel for them. There are plenty of nasty people who will prey on them.
Moderation is tricky. I hear of people getting traumatised from the stuff they have to check. You have to wonder if 'AI' will take on some of that work. Companies may get forced to do it, but then Twtr cut back on it and now seems to be a cesspool.
Hive is in an interesting position as a decentralised platform. Mastodon/Fediverse is a different version of that where individuals or companies run the servers and may be expected to moderate. I have not seen too much nasty stuff here so far, but it could easily happen.
Yes, I also think kids these days may come in contact with social media way too soon to understand the pitfalls. We sometimes don't understand them either, and we've seen a lot.
AI will pose another challenge through deep fakes. But I hope other types of AIs will be able to counteract that by marking the AI-generated content appropriately.
I suppose there is a benefit of being small. Hive is not on the radar of predators nor the governments, for the time being. For the most part. But as we grow we need to see how we can deal with potential issues. We saw an example with the bot farm coming from Splinterlands.