← Feed

Posts

• Post #4463137

  @foolfitz@social.slat.org closing the #COSCUP Fediverse track with a presentation around ActivityPub, news media, and how to use #Drupal to clear the way for federated media. #COSCUP2026

• Post #4462231

  @jdlh@mstdn.ca talking globally inclusive fediverse handles #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

• Post #4461218

  The prolific @hongminhee@hollo.social talks about how a small typographic itch (annotations) turned into upstream patches, a framework, and two fediverse servers #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

• Post #4460673

  #COSCUP continues with @evan@cosocial.ca from @swf talking about #ActivityPub 1.1 #COSCUP2026

• Post #4458802

  Time for Aung and Ye from BinaryLab to talk about their lessons learned building Apps For Change #COSCUP #COSCUP2026

• Post #4457388

  @z9mb1@hackers.pub #Fedify co-maintainer Jiwon up next doing an excellent job on first public speaking! Introducing Feder: a Rust framework for building ActivityPub applications.

• Post #4456849

  @jihyeok@hackers.pub walks us through two very cool #IndieWeb projects, including https://oeee.cafe/ a federated web drawing platform #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

• Post #4454719

  Roro Park (EATI) opens the Fediverse track with governance, especially with questions around interoperation across legal and cultural boundaries. #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

• Post #4397735

  Please be aware: IFTAS is aware of new moderation staff and support for zirk.us - do not recommend taking any action at this time while the new support gets situated

• Post #4383543

  RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/116880479865941905 Reminder:

• Post #4367291

  IFTAS can see 2,343 un-actioned botnet accounts, and thousands more are likely hiding in plain sight. They’re spewing spam every few minutes, cross-following, bridging, and federating hundreds of thousands of unwanted posts. And server admins are footing the bill. While we can't shut them down, we can help you block them. If a service goes at least 22 days without taking action on reported accounts, it becomes eligible for this denylist: https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-a...

• Post #4365758

  If you haven't yet silenced the following domains, you are potentially federating non-stop pro-Russian state-sponsored spam and slopaganda. Local timelines make it very clear these services are overrun, abandoned spam factories with 150-300 bot accounts posting 24/7. https://zirk.us/public/local https://sigmoid.social/public/local https://social.roadfm.fr/public/local todon.ploud.fr (appears to be offline at the moment) https://truthsocial.co.in/public/local See https://about.iftas.org/i...

• Post #4277121

  A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this year’s Social Web Operations Survey! 💙 Whether you're running a personal node or managing a massive community, your feedback gives us the info we need to build better tools, guidance, and support for frontline operators. When the report is final we'll post it here, and directly to participants if they opted-in. To everyone helping build the next generation of ethical social: thank you for everything you do!

• Post #4245371

  The annual IFTAS survey closes tonight! We're seeing a bunch of last minute entries, please be sure to take just 5 minutes and tell us how you're doing, what you need, what's working, what's not... Your responses inform platform development, moderation and admin tooling, regulations... and everything is 100% confidential and deidentified. 12 hours to go! ➡️ https://tally.so/r/81MW6k

• Post #4240844

  RE: https://about.iftas.org/2026/07/30/deprecation-notice-cariad-domain-observatory-transition/ Please be aware of our upcoming transition for the CARIAD domain observatory, and the new CARIAD files available.

• Post #4200593

  Only 2 days left to share your voice in our annual #Fediverse survey! If you run, manage, or moderate a #SocialWeb service, your anonymised and aggregated feedback goes directly to lawmakers and regulators around the world. If they don’t know our concerns, they can’t write laws that protect our mission. Help shape the policies that impact us. Take 5 minutes to share your experience: ➡️ https://tally.so/r/81MW6k

• Post #4165446

  Starting September 1, France will ban under 15s from using social media without parental consent. IFTAS has created some basic guidance for Social Web administrators and community managers at https://about.iftas.org/library/digital-age-of-majority-law-2023-france/ Short story: don't panic, but do amend your rules to prohibit minors; and enable the self-declared age option if you have that available.

• Post #4147599

  https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-for-communities/

• Post #4090756

  Every community operates differently, whether you're running a single-user instance, an app, or a large community hub. Over 280 nodes are represented so far in our annual operations survey, but we want to make sure _your_ unique trust and safety challenges are included before we wrap up this extended week. Help us get you the resources and tools you actually need. This survey is for #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderators - don't miss your chance! ➡️ https://tally.so/r/81MW6k Boost for vis...

• Post #4072967

  As I track the bots, sometimes I find wisdom lurking in the bios. Take for example: "Stable soil makes brave candy." I bet it does. "Why this mouth and not that egg?" Thought-provoking. "Somewhere between fingerstache and hella." I haven't figured this one out yet, I"m not enlightened enough. #BotSpotting

• Post #4041123

  @nlupo@amikejo.xyz @yawnbox@disobey.net I respectfully disagree. The term "public" in this context has very specific definition, and a private message - while technically readable by at least one other party, i.e. a database admin - would not meet the definition of public. First, it must have been manifestly made public. Second, it must have been made available to an individually unidentifiable group of people. I would argue that a followers-only post doesn't meet the definition...

• Post #3963583

  Day 1 #TrustCon #TrustCon2026 - I'm here to advocate for the Social Web, find out what resources and research are available to help service providers, moderators, community builders... and meet with the people already supporting decentral social.

• Post #3916508

  ⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The following domain(s) are entering the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged Domain (AUD) review process: burma.social These nodes are being overrun by coordinated botnets, and are unresponsive to reports, DMs, and Email communications. If you have contacts at any of these services, please reach out and let them know we have been trying to contact them. #Spam #FIMI #CIB #Disinformation

• Post #3857718

  Every year we ask admins, moderators, community builders, to tell us how things are going, what they need, and generally take the pulse of the open social web. So far this year we've had responses from 22 countries. If you're not on the list, nudge your admin to take the 5 minute survey today: Australia Austria Belgium Canada Costa Rica Czech Republic Finland France Germany Hungary India Indonesia Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Serbia Spain Sweden Switzerland UK USA ➡️ https://tally.so...

• Post #3846053

  @pepecyb Thanks for the heads-up! One comment, your required reason is five characters or more, but one of the most common reasons is "Spam", which is four characters. https://codeberg.org/derpepe/pepes-addons/src/branch/master/report/report.js if (reason.length < 5) { alert("The reason must be at least 5 characters long!"); return; }

• Post #3836764

  A cluster of ~300 WordPress web sites have begun federating over ActivityPub and then bridging to ATProto, all Swedish, mostly blank. Could be innocuous, could be the beginnings of an ad-farm, could be something more troubling. We have no idea, but here's a list of domains in case anyone wants to poke around and see if there's anything to be gleaned. Please use all sensible precautions before visiting an untrusted domain. https://pastebin.com/8PHQg0ZW

• Post #3744640

  IFTAS has now observed and reported over 4,000 inauthentic accounts created by the Portal Kombat/Matryoshka disinfo #FIMI team. This number is just the accounts manually observed and verified by humans. Could be there's twice as many, ten times as many, who knows? Each account spews non-stop automated slopaganda and inauthentic boosts. Roughly 65% of our reports are acted on. In other words, huge volumes of unchecked spam federating around the web. Learn more: https://about.iftas.org/...

• Post #3743160

  - Automated spam is on the rise. - Our digital communities are at risk from increasing regulation. - AI bots are overwhelming service providers. But we can prevail! Our annual assessment asks what tools and resources you need most to fight back. Whether you're a community builder, platform admin, or content moderator, your input directly shapes our upcoming work and advocacy efforts. Take just five minutes and fill out the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey today: ➡️ https://tally.so/r/8...

• Post #3581063

  Let's see what platforms are responding to this year's Social Web survey, the annual questionnaire to see how #FediAdmin and #FediMod folks are doing: #Mastodon 54 #Matrix 17 #PeerTube 15 #WordPress 10 #Pixelfed 9 #ATProto platform 8 #Lemmy 8 #Pleroma 8 #Bookwyrm 6 #GoToSocial 5 #Bonfire 4 #Gancio 4 #Sharkey 4 #Writefreely 4 #Akkoma 3 #Friendica 3 #Ghost 3 #Mobilizon 3 #Nostr platform 3 #Funkwhale 2 #Hometown 2 #Misskey 2 #NodeBB 2 #Hubzilla 1

• Post #3581029

  Let's see what platforms are responding to this year's Social Web survey, the annual questionnaire to see how #FediAdmin and #FediMod folks are doing: Mastodon 54 Matrix 17 PeerTube 15 WordPress 10 Pixelfed 9 ATProto platform 8 Lemmy 8 Pleroma 8 Bookwyrm 6 GoToSocial 5 Bonfire 4 Gancio 4 Sharkey 4 Writefreely 4 Akkoma 3 Friendica 3 Ghost 3 Mobilizon 3 Nostr platform 3 Funkwhale 2 Hometown 2 Misskey 2 NodeBB 2 Hubzilla 1