IFTAS

https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas

Independent Federated Trust and Safety - We support the people making the Fediverse safer by convening and creating best practice, resources and services that empower admins, moderators and community managers.

#FediMods #MastoMods #Moderation #TrustAndSafety #Fedi22

(Announcements only, follow https://mastodon.iftas.org/@jaz for discussion)

About IFTAS: https://about.iftas.org
Moderator Community & Library: https://connect.iftas.org
Newsletter: https://subscribepage.io/iftas
Charitable Contributions: https://givebutter.com/iftas

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

iftas_at_mastodon.iftas.org@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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2024-06-21 18:19:48

💬 New #Moderator Discussion (sign-in required): Digital Media Coordinator job @ The Center for Countering Digital Hate - https://connect.iftas.org/forums/discussion/digital-media-coordinator-job-the-center-for-countering-digital-hate/#post-4228

2024-06-21 17:55:28

📰 New IFTAS Connect blog post: May 2024 Connect Community Round-Up - https://connect.iftas.org/news/connect/may-2024-connect-community-round-up/

2024-06-21 17:28:21

📖 New item in the IFTAS Connect Library: Web Crawlers and Scrapers - https://connect.iftas.org/library/tools-resources/web-crawlers-and-scrapers/

2024-06-07 21:01:30

💯 It's official, IFTAS Connect is now at 100 registered members!
After opening the doors last week, we've welcomed moderators, community managers, administrators, researchers and trust and safety experts all seeking to collaborate, share, and help each other!
If you'd like to join, please request an account at https://connect.iftas.org
And remember, the library and the news sections are open to all!
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2024-06-07 18:56:04

✅ Our Moderator Advisory Council and others just completed a personal digital safety workshop with @npub1l3z…6jl3 as we onboard our first cohort of #moderators - providing guidance and concrete advice on preserving personal safety and offering incident support during times of harassment online or off. Fantastic resources!
Thanks to @npub17e4…t3yg and the Tall Poppy team for helping us provide this very valuable service to our at-risk moderators and community managers in the Fediverse!

2024-06-01 16:30:48

May 2024 Connect Community Round-Up
Welcome to this month's ‘round up’ blog post. IFTAS Connect went live on the 29th May 2024; it had previously been invite-only as a number of moderators went through the site, feeding back on its appearance and functionality. Now it’s gone live, we’ve had many more people sign up...
https://connect.iftas.org/news/connect/may-2024-connect-community-round-up/
#IFTASConnect #Moderators

2024-05-29 12:23:43

📢 We are thrilled to announce the launch of IFTAS Connect, a new community of practice designed specifically for Fediverse #Moderators
IFTAS Connect aims to provide moderators, community managers and anyone engaged in creating a safer Internet with a wealth of tools, resources, and a supportive network to help them connect, collaborate, and navigate the complexities of federated content moderation.
https://about.iftas.org/2024/05/29/iftas-connect-a-community-for-fediverse-moderators/
@npub1l2c…ccpv #Moderation #FediMods #MastoMods #TrustAndSafety
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2024-04-12 17:18:10

One of IFTAS’ priorities is to support Fediverse #moderators by creating template documents, training, and best practices guides.
We know there’s no “one size fits all” solution, but we’ve onsistently heard that these will be useful resources. As a first step towards that, IFTAS Advisors [@Lillian](https://mastodon.iftas.org/@Lillian) and [@jdp23](https://indieweb.social/@jdp23) are conducting a survey and holding a series of discussion sessions. We welcome your participation!
Here’s the survey:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/0sU8JebkNU8lb1yTD0VFIFiX1HVXKB4r3At41z9gaNY/
#Moderation #TrustAndSafety [@moderation](https://venera.social/profile/moderation)

2024-04-09 12:26:29

📝 Very happy to put our DSA Guide for Fediverse Services online today!
We get a lot of questions about the EU's Digital Services Act and the potential impact on Fediverse servers, so we partnered with Tremau - DSA experts - to break down when the law applies, when it doesn't, and practical guidance for Fedi admins who want to meet the requirements.
Community DSA Guide: https://about.iftas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSA-Guide-Decentralised-Servers.pdf
https://about.iftas.org/2024/04/09/dsa-guide-for-the-fediverse/
More guidance coming! GDPR next...
[@moderation](https://venera.social/profile/moderation) #MastoAdmin #DSA

2024-03-21 19:37:01

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Everything we do will be free of charge to as many people as we can manage for as long as we're funded.
Speaking of... we're now a recognised charity and can accept donations!
If you'd like to support the work we do, please reach out or make a donation here: https://givebutter.com/iftas-supporter
or a recurring donation here: https://givebutter.com/iftas-sustaining-supporter
To stay informed subscribe to our newsletter at https://subscribepage.io/iftas
Thank you to everyone who has worked on these resources or offered feedback!
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2024-03-21 19:35:41

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Last, and most definitely not least, our Moderator Advisory Council is now gearing up to begin advising and commenting on our activities.
We've created a stipend fund to pay for their time, and we couldn't be happier to be supporting these community leaders.
In addition, we will provide them and others with digital safety tools from Tall Poppy to help keep them safe on the social web.
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2024-03-21 19:35:07

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and [@jdp23](https://indieweb.social/@jdp23) kicked off our Moderator Documentation Support project.
This will gather up a range of moderator agreements, moderator codes of conduct, and any and all guidebooks we can find. Then, we will seek to provide baseline templates you can use to onboard new moderators and offer basic training and guidance on how to do the day-to-day tasks.
Learn more here: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@Lillian/112108782227917427
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2024-03-21 19:34:28

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And there's more!
Our moderator community portal will house a library of resources for trust and safety, discussion forums, a sharing space to seek help from your peer moderator community, template documents, and a lot more.
Our staff and workgroups will be first through the door, but we'll be welcoming more community members soon!
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2024-03-21 19:32:34

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Next: the DSA Guidebook for Micro Services.
Everything you wanted to know about the EU's Digital Services Act and were too afraid to ask.
We partnered with Tremau to take a look and figure out what parts apply to small platform service providers. Compliance may be hard, but we've provided some concrete guidance on how to stay on the right side of this broad regulation.
To follow, additional guidance on age verification requirements, GDPR issues, the UK's Online Safety Act and more.
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2024-03-21 19:31:10

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CARIAD is a "day one" denylist for new admins. We scan a range of high-volume servers and monitor what domain blocks they agree on. Spoiler, it's not much.
Only one domain is blocked by all major providers, and a little over 100 are blocked by more than half.
After manual review we add them to the database for aggregation and construct a very basic denylist alongside our DNI list, using standard labels.
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2024-03-21 19:30:39

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First up: FediCheck.
This is a Moderation-as-a-Service app that can monitor denylists from your trusted sources and automatically update your server.
For now we will use the IFTAS CARIAD database, but future versions will support a server or servers of your choice, popular denylists, or third-party labellers.
Mastodon only for now, but the roadmap includes additional platforms as well as toxic IP addresses and email domains.
Ask for beta access here: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/E2yxXhoruIVzj4EGGdDIKintwBVFYsq9Srl4GhYeXwU/
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2024-03-21 19:29:00

So many great conversations at #FediForum - and great feedback from plenty of engaged attendees!
We'd like to give you a taste of what you'll be seeing from IFTAS and all our heroic advisors and volunteers in the coming month.
[@moderation](https://venera.social/profile/moderation) #Moderation #TrustAndSafety #FediMods
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2024-03-21 17:36:24

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We (IFTAS) can see ~25% of Mastodon accounts covered by these rules. Our blog lists the servers we know of that have added this guidance for their members and mods.
It's important to note that orgs newly joining the Fediverse may have heard of "Mastodon" as a network, but not the dozens of other platforms that interconnect, or the nuance of federation.
[@Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon) adding this guidance sets the standard for others, great leadership on their part!
https://about.iftas.org/2024/01/30/targeted-misgendering-and-deadnaming-in-the-fediverse/

2024-03-21 17:14:34

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might it make more sense to expose the labelled lists/database rather than FediCheck itself? Let's talk and discuss what makes most sense. cc [@jaz](https://mastodon.iftas.org/@jaz)