Running a federated messaging service exposes the volunteer staff to legal and regulatory requirements, online harms, and myriad questions. IFTAS provides resources to volunteer moderators, administrators, and community managers:

• IFTAS Trust and Safety Library
  • Moderator Guides & Howtos | Wellness & Resilience | Legal & Regulatory | Tools & Resources | Community Management | Harms (definitions and example rules/community guidelines) by Actor, Behaviour, Content Type
     
• DSA Guide for Decentralised Services (EU)
• OSA Guide for Decentralised Services (UK)
   
• Social Web ISAC Advisories – alerts from IFTAS concerning spam, csam, network abuse and more. See also:
  • IFTAS Do Not Interact (DNI) Denylist
  • IFTAS Abandoned / Unmanaged Domains (AUD) Denylist
  • Social Web Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (SW-ISAC)
     
• Fediverse Domain Observatory – monitor which domains are being blocked by the Fediverse or compare your blocked domains to the 51% list (Mastodon login required).
  • Download the CSV: IFTAS CARIAD Denylist
  • Or retrieve the lists in JSON format:
    • Domains blocked by 51% or more of observed sources (JSON)
    • Domains blocked by 66% or more of observed sources (JSON)
    • Domains blocked by 80% or more of observed sources (JSON)

• Fediverse Community Needs Annual Reports – our annual survey of moderator experience

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