It’s Not Just Mastodon
2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment: Moderation Across the Social Web The Fediverse is more than Mastodon, and moderation is bigger than any one platform.…
Category: IFTAS Updates
What’s Missing, What’s Next
2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment: The Tools and Resources Moderators Need Most Last year’s survey revealed major gaps in the tools available to moder…
The Moderator Experience
2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment: The Human Side of Moderation Moderation isn’t just technical work – it’s human work. It involves emotional labo…
Real Change from Real Answers
2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment: How Your Answers Became Action in 2024 Last year, moderators and administrators from across the Fediverse – and bey…
[View Source] ISAC Alert – 2025-08-12 14:33 UTC – Discussion is growing about LLM bots and other tools scraping public posts. This raises concerns about…
The 2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment is Open: Have Your Say
Every year, IFTAS asks the people who keep our communities safe to tell us what they need.The Fediverse Needs Assessment gathers input from moderators…
[View Source] ISAC Alert – 2025-08-05 13:36 UTC – The following modified Mastodon servers are a collection of automated accounts that create ~15,000 posts per…
[View Source] ISAC Alert – 2025-08-04 15:58 UTC – The Cloudflare CSAM Scanning Tool (https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/reference/csam-scanning/) is now available worldwide to any Cloudflare user, and no…
Navigating the UK Online Safety Act
What Fediverse Service Providers Need to Know The Online Safety Act (OSA) is now in force in the United Kingdom. Enforced by Ofcom, the UK’s communi…
IWF Offers Fediverse a Way to Block CSAM
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has announced a new tool, Image Intercept, designed to help smaller platforms detect and block known child sexual …