Denylist Resources

From the IFTAS Moderator Library, supporting Fediverse trust & safety

Updated on 2024-04-08

Also see: Denylist Management

Domains #

  • https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists/
  • Oliphant.Social Mastodon Blocklists: This is a place to find curated server blocklists for your own use. There are links to individual blocklist sources, as well as a custom “unified” file that takes critical blocklist files from other sources and merges them together into a single import file. Use it, or any of the individual sources listed below as you see fit.
  • Garden Fence: This list is intended as a simple starting point for Mastodon server admins who want to protect their users from the worst and most well known sources of: hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia Harassment, trolling, doxxing, stalking, alt-right, nazism, fascism, free-speech-as-in-bigotry, “just asking questions”, misinformation, anti-vax, conspiracy theories, sexualization of minors, potential for CSAM, spamming, denial-of-service, network disruption, abusive bots.
  • The Bad Space – The Bad Space arose from a need to identify instances that house bad actors, are poorly moderated, and/or contain inappropriate/offensive content (CSAM, hate speech, fascist ideology, etc.) that puts marginalized communities at risk.
  • IFTAS DNI
  • IFTAS CARIAD

Domain Investigation #

Use these tools to review federating domain services.

  • FediDB: Fediverse network statistics
  • fedistats: an index of nodes that have been active in the last 24 hours. You can sort by daily or weekly posts and number of active users and search node addresses.
  • Fediverse Observer: Fediverse Observer finds all servers in the fediverse

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