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Independent Federated Trust and Safety - We support the people making the Fediverse safer by convening and creating best practice, resources and services that […]

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The IFTAS CARIAD Domain Observatory monitors the domains blocked by 51% or more of the observed sources.

Mastodon administrators can browse the database (and compare their blocked domains to the CARIAD database) at https://cariad.fedicheck.iftas.org […]

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A list of domains observed by the CARIAD tool A screesnhot of the denylist compare tool description, it reads "CARIAD sees 183 domains blocked or limited by at least 51% of our observed sources, or included on the IFTAS DNI list. 70 of these domains are not present on your server. See below."
January 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory

The account "oscarolg" continues to proliferate across federated services, with over 50 accounts observed today

#sw_isac_advisory #spam #cib
a view of many "oscarolg" profiles listed
December 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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💙 Season’s greetings to all the Fediverse moderators, admins, and community builders.

Thank you for the time, care, and emotional labour you give to keeping online spaces safer, fairer, and more humane.

Your work often goes unseen, but it truly matters […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Two candles aflame, decorated with a pine cone, against a backdrop of fir and blurry lights
December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory

The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List

gs dot leftic dot club

https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/

#sw_isac_advisory
An example profile directory of an unmonitored or abandoned server, showing 10 new profiles created by a known bot network
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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IFTAS Connect is being decommissioned today 😢

I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who participated, contributed resources, and helped build a shared understanding of moderation and safety in federated systems.

I am still full-time, IFTAS isn't […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Screenshot of the IFTAS Connect Error 404 page
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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@kraft @pfefferle lol, now it's no image, but way more readable, so maybe I'll leave it...
preview card with no logo but now a white background with black text title
October 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Any #wordpress experts able to help me figure out how to change the og:image for the IFTAS blog? I'm using the Nook theme, I have a Site Logo set in the site editor, Jetpack is enabled (.com business plan).

I have a 1200x630 image ready to use, but […]

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A visual display of how the open graph is being rendered for a preview card. A vertical slice of the Site Logo is used in the left hand third of the image, the right hand two thirds is a black background with the site name in white text.
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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With less than a week to go, let's see which platforms are responding to the Annual Fediverse Survey

To help make the graph readable, Mastodon, with 59 entries, is not included in the visual. Any platforms with only one response have been excluded (13 […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
GoToSocial 15 PeerTube 10 Sharkey 9 WordPress 9 Bluesky / ATProto Service 8 Lemmy 6 Pixelfed 6 Akkoma 4 Bonfire 4 Writefreely 4 Friendica 3 Hometown 3 PieFed 3 Wafrn 3 Discord 2 Funkwhale 2 Ghost 2 Hubzilla 2 Mobilizon 2 Owncast 2 Pleroma 2 Snac / Snac2 2 (streams) 2
September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Every year we ask the community builders on the social web to tell us how they're doing, and what tools and resources organisations like IFTAS and others can be working on to support decentralised communities.

Last year we heard from roughly half the […]

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Have your say
September 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Last year, volunteer moderators told us their top tooling needs: this year, we’re listening again. Take the survey: https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/ - any platform, any protocol
A chart showing the various platforms our survey respondents moderate for
September 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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1 in 5 moderators faced burnout in 2024. Many still work without formal guidance or support. Share your story in the Needs Assessment - it’s how we push for better tools, training, and wellness resources. https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/
Chart showing 21.4% of moderators reporting burnout or mental health issues over the past 12 months
August 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Last year’s Needs Assessment led to CSAM detection & reporting guidance, help with DSA & OSA, the CARIAD domain observatory, open-sourcing FediCheck, shared vocabulary translations (Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, French)... Imagine what we can do with your […]

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Chart showing "I have enough knowledge and resources to adequately manage and moderate my service" Strongly disagree 1.8%, Somewhat disagree 15.5%, Somewhat agree 50%, Strongly agree 32.7%
August 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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How you can help keep IFTAS going:

1. Spread the word: Raising awareness about our funding challenges can help us connect with potential funders, partners, and supporters.

Share our fundraising overview ( […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Mastodon posts which say things like “#IFTAS is building so many things that are incredibly important: moderator stipend funds, a portal for learning from other moderators & exchanging notes & building fellowship, CSAM detection tools, labelers, protection for at-risk moderators.” “One of the sessions at #FediForum focused on CSAM, quite a tough topic. If you host your own instance, even if it's just YOU on that instance, you need to consider taking action to protect yourself and your moderation team. Kudos to @thisismissem and @iftas for exploring new ways to manage this without scarring moderators for life.” “IFTAS is amazing, and so is all the work @thisismissem is doing! IFTAS is the perfect org that could eventually maintain FediDB, its growing increasingly important to the fedi and an org like that could manage it long term better than I might be able to.” “It's been really interesting to see the team at @iftas discussing their vision for connecting moderators across the Fediverse. At Newsmast we've been reaching out to other moderators and admins to help us with content we may not have the context or language skills to understand. It'll be great to have a simple way for moderators to communicate and learn from one another!” “I'm excited about IFTAS Connect. It's a great platform, and considerable thought seems to have gone into making it safe and productive.” “Thank you to IFTAS for their important work to make the fediverse more inclusive, safe, and welcoming.”
February 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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To all our moderation heroes, tireless admins, community managers and everyone working to make #bettersocialmedia

As the year draws to a close, all of us at IFTAS want to express our heartfelt gratitude for the incredible work you do every day. Your […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
happy holidays printed in various fonts in many languages
December 23, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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✨ Two more communities signed up as a Supporting Instance ✨

Thank you and welcome to @Admin / mastodon.design, and @support from defcon.social. We are so grateful for the support, and the trust you've placed in IFTAS to help promote a safer #fediverse

#togetherstronger #givingtuesday
A dark placard is held aloft in a blurry crowd of demonstrators outdoors. The placard reads "Be the change you want to see in this world"
December 2, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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We are excited to announce that @ted has 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 […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
A person with medium light skin tone, short black hair and black stubble, wearing black glasses, smiles broadly while taking a selfie. Behind them is a white wall with a red triangle whose tip bends to slant to the side behind them.
November 25, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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We’ve hit 100% on the French and Brazilian Portuguese translations for the DTSP Glossary of Terms to establish a common set of terms and definitions for online harms 🥳️.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped us get there.

Access the completed […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Screenshot of part of the CrowdIn translation effort showing French and Brazilian Portuguese as 100% translated. German, Italian and Portuguese as 2% translated. Scottish Gaelic as 3% translated. Korean as 7% translated. And Bengali, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian at 0%.
November 24, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Our 2024 moderator survey received over 120 responses representing nearly two million hosted accounts. While we work on the final report, we have some early highlights on the Blog: https://about.iftas.org/2024/10/16/2024-survey-early-highlights/ .

Early […]

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A bar chart showing number of responses against platform. Lemmy has the most at 13, followed by PeerTube at 10, Pixelfed and Bookwyrn at 8, Akkoma at 6, Wordpress and Bluesky at 5, mbin, WriteFreely and Matrix at 4, Friendica, Hometown, Mobilizon, IceShrimp and Sharkey at 4, Pleroma, Firefish, GoToSocial, Misskey, and PieFed at 2, and Hubzilla, Forgejo, flohmarkt and OwnCast at 1.
November 12, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Did you know we run a community for Fediverse moderators?

It was inspired by our Moderator Needs Assessment, especially this powerful quote from one moderator;

“together we are stronger."

We couldn’t agree more, which is why we launched IFTAS Connect […]

[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
screenshot of IFTAS connects library section including guides and how tos of mastodon moderation and educational resources, wellness and resilience like conflict de-escalation and resolution and coping with exposure to traumatic content, legal and regulatory information like what is PII and CSAM reporting requirements, tools and resources like denylist management and reserved words, community management including responding to self harm and suicidal content, and IFTAS documentation. screenshot of part of IFTAS connect showing discussions, groups and members. Under discussions are active discussions and new discussions. Under groups are group membership and active groups. Under members are new arrivals and recently active.
November 1, 2024 at 3:01 PM