We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users! Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.

Who moderates the social web? In the second post of our 2025 report series, we look at the people behind the work, their roles, experience, and how many are burning out. Now with three years of data, we’re also looking at trends. about.iftas.org/2026/01/21/b...

Who moderates the social web? In the second post of our 2025 report series, we look at the people behind the work, their roles, experience, and how many are burning out. Now with three years of data, we’re also looking at trends. about.iftas.org/2026/01/26/b...

This week 54 MEPs signed a letter supporting 'european' social media alternatives. Eurosky/ATproto, Mastodon/ActivityPub are credible options. But the Grok scandal, which prompted the latter, also highlights the stakes - the safety of people, especially minorities (cont. 👇)

For our first launch of the year, we're kicking off with more blocking features! Rolling out today: ATProto across Bluesky, Blacksky, and any other PDS can apply domain blocklists to Bridgy Fed. Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.

Any blacksky.app users who get banned from bsky should try logging into the staging.blacksky.community website. Looking to get feedback + identify any lingering bugs. Email [email protected] with those. Missing data from non-Blacksky hosted accounts + older posts is expected

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available. Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing. The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change. ➡️ about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/t...

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available. Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing. The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change. ➡️ about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/t...

Good news; a judge has blocked the detention of a technology researcher that the State Department had slated to deport. However, this is just the start of what will certainly be a longer-term challenge. What can we do about this? A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

What does it mean for an online environment to be "toxic" or "polluted" and can we borrow ideas from environmental modeling to make online spaces more livable? @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy has a post announcing a new CAT Lab project citizensandtech.org/2025/12/onli...

How do content moderation systems work in non-English languages in the Global South? CDT partnered with regional civil society organizations to examine moderation in Maghrebi Arabic, Kiswahili, Tamil, and Quechua across major platforms. cdt.org/content-mode...

"What does it mean to delay the application of the AI Act for the high risk category as proposed? It means deep fakes are still legal. It means generated, targeted medical scams are still legal." — @alexandrageese.bsky.social #EuroskyLive

If you want to post about the @eurosky.social event feel free to use the hashtag #EuroskyLive That way you’ll show up in this feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ooensn4mr5mhznzypvxelfa3/feed/Eurosky-Live

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/eurosky.social Eurosky Live from Berlin

Apologies for sliding and hijacking this but ROOST is still accepting applications for our Staff software engineer role! We're a v small team so this person ideally has a mix of backend and frontend experience. Improving the UI of T&S tools is my personal soapbox roost.tools/staff-softwa...

I so want to just throw divine.video out to the world, but that's not the responsible thing to do. When I realized it's going to get a lot of attention and use, we had to step back and make sure we had systems in place for it to scale both the servers and trust & safety systems.

Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our community, and (2) we want to discuss our ideas publicly. Some... 1/

Launching xodus.online ! Building a movement away from toxic social media, towards alternative social media (open social web) - the why, the where-to and the how! Please support our launch ! xodus.online/2025/10/30/l...

At the Paris Peace Forum earlier today, we announced the release of gpt-oss-safeguard in partnership with OpenAI. Now, we’re announcing the launch of the ROOST Model Community (RMC). roost.tools/blog/a-new-milestone-for-open-source-safety-infrastructure-and-transparency/

"AI in content moderation is far from a recent innovation: machine learning (ML) classifiers have been used for content moderation since around 2016." However, this trend has been accelerating more recently. www.techpolicy.press/researchers-...

Interesting write up.

[New Paper Alert] Who’s Telling the Story of the Russia-Ukraine War on Telegram? “Shaping Western Perceptions: The Role of English-language Verified Telegram Channels in Framing the Narratives Around the Russia-Ukraine War” by @gruzd.ca, Yisheng Li & @philipmai.com socialmedialab.ca/2025/10/27/n...

Thanks Jaz for joining me on Fireside Fedi. Please check out Jaz and IFTAS . Jaz's work in #trust and #safety on the #fediverse is absolutely vital. #Peertube #VOD - video.firesidefedi.live/w/rfCpqU15if... #Castopod #Fedicast - audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefed... www.youtube.com/@btfree_org

Trying out notebooklm created videos trained on my revolution.social podcast. Here's a video about how hard it is to do content moderation, based on my discussions with @yoyoel.com, @noupside.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @coachtony.bsky.social, and others....

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary. It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

Q: Can soft moderation techniques (such as footnotes and blur screens) decrease engagement with misinformation on social media? A: Yes, yes, they can. socialmedialab.ca/2024/09/11/n...

Some exciting news: this morning we launched a collaboration with @icrc.org: our Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict game. trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org

The Trust & Safety Research Conference starts the day after tomorrow! If you see me, come say hi - and please come to the lightning talks sessions on Online Privacy and Digital Well-Being that I'm moderating Thursday morning at 9:45! cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/content/trus...

⏳ The IFTAS Moderator Needs Assessment closes soon! This is your last chance to make your needs count and tell your story. Take the survey now:

Moderators from Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, Discord, Reddit - we want your input. The Social Web Needs Assessment is open - any platform, any protocol:

Here's this week's issue of Relay, a roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.

Thanks to @baileytownsend.dev PDS Gatekeeper, 2FA is now live for blacksky.app hosted accounts as well.

Last year, volunteer moderators told us their top tooling needs: this year, we’re listening again. Take the survey: about.iftas.org/moderator-ne... - any platform, any protocol

1 in 5 moderators faced burnout in 2024. Many still work without formal guidance or support. Share your story in the Needs Assessment - it’s how we push for better tools, training, and wellness resources. about.iftas.org/moderator-ne...

Your answers turn into action. In 2024, the Needs Assessment led to new guidance, tools, and translations used across the open social web. Let’s make it happen again in 2025: about.iftas.org/moderator-ne...

New blog post: jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/t...

New blog post: https://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses

The 2025 Social Web Needs Assessment is live. From Nostr to Mastodon, Discord to Bluesky – if you moderate, this is for you. Share your experience and help shape the next year of resources and advocacy. See about.iftas.org/moderator-ne... for details. Any platform, any protocol.

🚨ROOST is announcing Coop and Osprey: two new, open-source online safety tools. ✅ Customizable ✅ Open source ✅ Trusted integrations A better way to handle online harm, built by people who get it. More here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a... #TrustandSafety

24h until #FediForum starts. If you are registered, you should have received an e-mail invite to our on-line venue. We are very much looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

We're celebrating 100 days! Since our launch in February, we’ve: 🟡 Built critical open source safety tools 🟡 Made real progress on CSAM detection tools 🟡 Grown our partner network 🟡 Formed our Technical Advisory Committee Read the full update in our blog below: roost.tools/blog/roost-s...

48 hours left before FediForum starts. Join the community for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, demos, creating new projects and more on all aspects of better social communications, social media and the open social web. Now with keynotes! Registration: https://fediforum.org

My latest Bluesky feed is now live: on all things #Fediforum… A great event looking at latest on both ATproto & ActivityPub innovations to the Open Social Web. Created with #Surfsocial #Surffeeds Fediforum bsky.app/profile/did:...

IFTAS @iftas We've posted an overview and recommendations for decentralised providers with regard to the passing of the "Take It Down Act" which mandates removal of non-consensual intimate images and videos, and deepfakes, within 48 hours of reporting. connect.iftas.org/library/lega...

The Trust and Safety Feed (bsky.app/profile/did:...) is now restricted to matching content from a curated list, which in turn was seeded by the starter pack from @davidsullivan.bsky.social but is being added to over time. Please DM me with suggestions for people to add.