Heading to Amsterdam for the PublicSpaces Conference! Before I go, check out the data driving our work in the 2025 Annual Report: about.iftas.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Social-Web-Trust-Safety-Needs-Assessment-Report-2025.pdf This year's Social Web Community Builder survey will be out soon!

Waking up on Sunday to 28 incredible supporters! Thank you all. We are quietly building a sustainable community baseline to keep IFTAS tools free, open, and online. If you can spare just 1 a month (£, €, $) to help safeguard the social web, join us here: givebutter.com/iftas-power-...

Fighting back against coordinated spam networks takes real infrastructure. IFTAS keeps its safety tools open and free for the Social Web, but we need to pay our bills. Can you give just 1 a month (£/€/$) to help? Be one of 500: givebutter.com/iftas-power-of-one

Fighting back against coordinated spam networks takes real infrastructure. IFTAS keeps its safety tools open and free for the Social Web, but we need to pay our bills. Can you give just 1 a month (£/€/$) to help? Be one of 500: givebutter.com/iftas-power-of-one

A quick scan of "Study of interoperability tools in the digital single market" (https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/7ed3fe8e-42a7-11f1-8095-01aa75ed71a1) seems to exhibit some misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Mastodon and the broader fediverse/open social web […]

Reminder that I maintain a periodically-updated reading list of papers at the intersection of E2EE and Trust & Safety; suggestions welcome: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New from me, on the decision by the @ec.europa.eu to not extend the DMA interoperability requirements to social media, and how this closes off a pathway for mass adoption of open social networks. connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...