IFTAS undertakes activities in response to the Moderator Needs Assessment survey.
Completed #
| Community Collaboration Portal | Trust and safety Library, News, Discussion Forums, and Member Groups for moderators, community managers, and trust and safety subject matter experts. |
| Advisory Council | The Moderator Advisory Council is an advisory group of nine active moderators that receives a monthly stipend for reviewing IFTAS plans, products, and services. |
| IFTAS-curated Domain Denylists | IFTAS offers the IFTAS DNI List – a labelled list of do-not-interact domains, and CARIAD, an aggregated list of the most-blocked domains as observed on the busiest, most active Mastodon servers. |
| Day one denylist Support | FediCheck is a Web service from IFTAS that allows new service providers to review and subscribe to external sources such as the IFTAS CARIAD database for automated denylist additions and retractions. If you’d like to use FediCheck for your server, please register your interest. |
| Digital Services Act Guidance | Includes the IFTAS/Tremau Digital Services Act (DSA) Explainer for Fediverse administrators |
| Mastodon Moderation Training Sandbox | Free server for Mastodon moderators to play with all the tools and buttons on a Mastodon server. When applying, please confirm the server(s) you moderate for |
| CSAM Guidance | Label page, primer, reporting guidelines |
| Community Chat | Matrix space |
| Community Newsletter | Monthly newsletter option |
| Common Vocabulary | Shared vocabulary of labels and definitions. |
| Charitable Status | Make a sustaining contribution Sponsor the Moderator Advisory Council Support FediCheck Donate stocks, securities and cryptocurrency |
In Progress #
| Social Web Information Sharing and Analysis Centre | The Social Web ISAC will convene a range of members to create a mechanism for rapid data analysis and sharing to help combat spam, CSAM, disinformation, TVEC, NCII and service abuse. |
| Content Classification Service | Hash and match Web service to identify and report CSAM – Register to be notified when CCS is available. |
| Shared Vocabulary Translation | Translation of the shared labels and definitions will occur on CrowdIn once we have the necessary licenses |
| Post-trauma resources | Resources will be made available in the library as they become available |
| Personal Digital Safety | IFTAS has acquired 20 Tall Poppy licenses and is scheduling the first cohort for onboarding. If you’d like to be notified when we open up to more applicants, let us know using this form. |
| GDPR Guidance | GDPR FAQ for administrators and moderators |
| Moderator Team Templates | Moderator Agreement Template, Moderator Code of Conduct Template. If you’d like to add your insight and feedback, fill out this brief questionnaire. |
| Bluesky Labelling | Our Bluesky links: IFTAS IFTAS Labeller Trust and Safety Custom Feed |
Planning #
| Disinformation / Misinformation Resources | API, content classification tools, trusted flaggers |
| Spam Account registration resources | stopforumspam, IP reputation, others |
| NCII Hash and match | tbd |
| Malicious URL scanner | API |
| Regulatory Compliance Guidance | GDPR, OSA (AU), OSA (UK), PIPEDA, COPPA, |
| Core Privacy Policy | minimum-necessary templates |
| Core Community Guidelines | minimum-necessary templates |
| IFTAS Connect content translation | |
| IFTAS Connect wiki pages |
Back Burner #
| Group Insurance | Very few services provide or have obtained insurance. IFTAS could investigate helping procure group-based insurance |
| Pro Bono / Low cost legal advice | Investigate pro bono / low bono services from law firms willing to support open social web service providers and moderators |
| Caretaker Service | IFTAS could offer a caretaker service to preserve servers coming up for shutdown |
| Registered Representative service | Social web providers seeking to meet compliance with EU and/or UK requirements will need a registered agent/point of contact. This could be IFTAS provides, or IFTAS purchases bulk option from an agent service |
| Age verification guidance | |
| CSAM Detection via API | To explore use of Arachnid and/or 3-is (or similar) |
