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  • Welcoming Erin Kissane

    We are thrilled to announce that Erin Kissane has joined the IFTAS Advisory Board! Erin brings a unique and deeply informed perspective on trust, safety, and governance in decentralised online spaces, making her an invaluable addition to our mission of supporting independent social media communities. Erin’s recent work on Fediverse Governance underscores her dedication to…

  • Ted Han and Andrés Monroy-Hernández join the IFTAS Advisory Board

    We are excited to announce that Ted Han and Andrés Monroy-Hernández have joined the IFTAS Advisory Board! Ted is a distinguished leader in open-source technology and digital public interest work. With his deep expertise in fostering privacy, transparency, and ethical tech practices, Ted brings invaluable insight to our mission of building safer, more equitable digital…

  • Coordinated Community Response Mitigates Fediverse Spam Attack

    On October 8, 2024, an IFTAS Connect member observed one of the first spam posts from a network attack conducted by what appeared to be a reuse of the same “nuke” script we saw earlier this year in February, a simple but effective tool to create new accounts in bulk, and use those new accounts…

  • 2024 Survey – Early Highlights

    We are now reviewing the fantastic responses from our 2024 Needs Assessment participants. Thank you to everyone who participated! A very special thank you to everyone for whom English is not your first language – we hope to offer the survey in additional languages next year, but we really appreciate all the people who took…

  • IFTAS Update: Content Classification, Moderation Tooling

    We are extremely proud to announce our Content Classification Service is up and running, with our first classifier active. We are starting with detecting child sexual abuse media for our opt-in connected servers, and our plan is to introduce additional classifiers over time, including non-consensual intimate imagery, terroristic and violent extremist content, malicious URLs, spam,…

  • Welcoming the Social Web Foundation

    We are excited to celebrate the launch of the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the open, interconnected web through the ActivityPub protocol. At IFTAS, we believe in fostering transparency, innovation, and safety within social platforms, and the formation of SWF is a major step toward that goal. The Social Web Foundation brings…

  • Your Voice Matters: Guide IFTAS with the 2024 Needs Assessment

    At IFTAS, our mission is to support moderators, admins, and community managers by delivering the resources and tools they need most. To ensure we are directing our efforts where they will have the greatest impact, we conduct an annual needs assessment. This allows us to prioritise our work based on real-world feedback from the community.…

  • Fediverse Trust and Safety: The Founding and Future of IFTAS

    In November of 2022 as millions of people sought alternatives to Twitter, the Fediverse experienced tremendous growth – and with that growth came an increasing number of people asking “how do we scale and support volunteer trust and safety?”. IFTAS was born out of those conversations, beginning with a working group to identify the issues…

  • Tim Chambers Joins the IFTAS Advisory Board

    We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to the IFTAS Advisory Board: Tim Chambers, co-founder and head of Dewey Digital. Tim brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our organization, and we are excited to welcome him to our team. A Leader in Digital Innovation Tim Chambers is a distinguished leader in the…

  • IFTAS Connect: A Community for Fediverse Moderators

    When we asked the moderator community what resources they’d like IFTAS to work on, one of the most requested items was a way to convene and collaborate with fellow moderators around the world. We heard requests for things like sharing lessons learned, tips and tricks, technical help with moderation tools, standard terminology, and translation of…

  • Spring 2024 Update

    We’ve had a tremendously busy first quarter, too much too fit in a newsletter, so here’s the roundup of what’s been happening these past few months. Content Classification System This is the biggest project we have underway: build an opt-in, privacy-preserving CSAM detection and reporting system to help protect the Fediverse. We are halfway through…

  • DSA Guide for the Fediverse

    IFTAS is happy to announce the public availability of our DSA Guide for Decentralized Services – a practical guide for small and micro services that are subject to the EU’s Digital Services Act.  If your server has member accounts in the EU, or is publicly viewable in the EU, your service is most likely impacted…