2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment: Moderation Across the Social Web
The Fediverse is more than Mastodon, and moderation is bigger than any one platform.
Last year, we heard from moderators on Mastodon, Nostr, Bluesky, Matrix, even Discord and Reddit, and beyond. Every platform has its own challenges, but many needs – like better tooling, clearer guidance, and stronger support networks are universal.
Over the past year we’ve worked with moderation tooling projects like Bonfire’s Federated Moderation Toolkit, the ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce, ROOST, and other projects looking to extend moderation beyond a single platform and offer real world tooling that can help moderators and community managers share the load and manage multiple platforms.
This year, we want an even broader picture.
Whether you moderate a niche forum, a public Mastodon server, a Discord channel, or a Bluesky instance, your input belongs in the Needs Assessment.
The more diverse the voices, the better we can create resources that work across the ecosystem.
