Today @roost.tools@bsky.brid.gy released v0 of Coop, the trust & safety review tool. 👀
Note that it’s v0 for a reason! While we focused on core functionality and child safety features like Google Content Safety API integration(!)…
#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource
Coop v0 Released! · roostorg c...
Today @roost.tools@bsky.brid.gy released v0 of Coop, the trust & safety review tool. 👀
Note that it’s v0 for a reason! While we focused on core functionality and child safety features like Google Content Safety API integration(!)…
#TrustAndSafety #OpenSource
Coop v0 Released! · roostorg c...
Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.
We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.
We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋
You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.
Hello, fediverse! We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit that makes open source trust & safety infra tools.
We recently openly released Osprey, the automated rules engine and investigation tool used in production by Discord and Bluesky.
We were at FOSDEM. And now we’re finally here on Mastodon! 👋
You can continue to follow @roost.tools as a direct bridge from our Bluesky account, but we’ll post more specifically for the fediverse directly over here, now.
The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Report Is Here
New insights into the people, pressures, and infrastructure shaping decentralised platforms
Published by IFTAS, this report draws on detailed surveys and community feedback from volunteer moderators, administrators, and community managers across the decentralised social web. It offers our most comprehensive picture yet of the trust and safety landscape across projects like Mastodon, GoToSocial, WordPress, PeerTube, and more.
What’s in the Report
New pressures on moderators: The average […]
Behind the Numbers: Who Moderates the Social Web?
Volunteers, burnout, and the people holding the line
Who is doing the work to keep the social web safe? Who responds to reports, blocks malicious actors, answers legal requests, and supports users in distress?
According to the 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report, it is mostly unpaid, overstretched volunteers. This year’s findings confirm what many already know from experience: the people making moderation possible are holding up a system that is growing heavier by the […]
The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Report Is Here
New insights into the people, pressures, and infrastructure shaping decentralised platforms
Published by IFTAS, this report draws on detailed surveys and community feedback from volunteer moderators, administrators, and community managers across the decentralised social web. It offers our most comprehensive picture yet of the trust and safety landscape across projects like Mastodon, GoToSocial, WordPress, PeerTube, and more.
What’s in the Report
New pressures on moderators: The average […]
Behind the Numbers: Who Moderates the Social Web?
Volunteers, burnout, and the people holding the line
Who is doing the work to keep the social web safe? Who responds to reports, blocks malicious actors, answers legal requests, and supports users in distress?
According to the 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report, it is mostly unpaid, overstretched volunteers. This year’s findings confirm what many already know from experience: the people making moderation possible are holding up a system that is growing heavier by the […]
ENDGAME 3.0 REMEDIATION | Following on from the 📢 announcement last week Spamhaus is now sending notification emails 📩 to ISPs associated with infected machines.
Here's what to do if you receive one: ⤵️
👉 Go to this remediation webpage: https://www.spamhaus.org/endgame-3
👉 Enter the access code in the email.
👉 Download the list of infected machines
👉 Verify each machine, and where necessary, contact the owner and ask them to run antivirus and malware removals tools, and reset their passwords for any online services they may have accessed from them (there's an email template on the remediation webpage 😀)
Thank you to everyone who is part of this effort.
This is a really important resource for community health on the fediverse. If you help run a fediverse instance or community of any kind, please please please help pulse-check the state of the fediverse by filling in this survey: https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/
Please reshare for reach!
This is a really important resource for community health on the fediverse. If you help run a fediverse instance or community of any kind, please please please help pulse-check the state of the fediverse by filling in this survey: https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/
Please reshare for reach!
🏳️⚧️ LinkedIn removes #HateSpeech protections for #transgender individuals
@opentermsarchive detected on July 29th that LinkedIn removed transgender-related protections from its policy on hateful and derogatory content. The platform no longer lists “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” as examples of prohibited conduct.
👉 Full memo and sources: https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-protections/
🇫🇷 Memo in French: https://opentermsarchive.org/fr/memos/linkedin-retire-des-protections-contre-les-discours-de-haine-envers-les-personnes-transgenres/
#TermsSpotting #TrustAndSafety#LGBTQ#ContentModeration #transrights
A plain a simple fact is that we can already prevent the distribution of terroristic or violent extremist content (TVEC) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without the need for invading everyone's privacy.
Why? Because most of this stuff is shared publicly on large social media platforms.
There's a bunch that does go through apps like telegram, but it doesn't happen in end-to-end encrypted places typically. It happens in public chats that telegram can and should moderate.
Our problems with combating CSAM and TVEC in the EU are not solved by scanning everyone's devices for potentially harmful material, in fact, that creates a *way* larger problem.
Our problems are that we don't have reporting hotlines for ESPs (electronic service providers) to actually report illegal conduct on their platforms across the EU. We have nothing like NCMEC here that coordinates reports of content with law enforcement & distributes hashes of known harmful content.
You report CSAM in the EU, and most likely that report goes to NCMEC in the US because we simply don't have the institutional organisations to handle it.
So given the lack of reporting and response management hotlines, what do you think is going to happen when you mandate scanning of private content on everyone's devices and the sheer number of false positives that's going to generate? The already barely working system is going to completely collapse.
Chat Control will not protect kids, it won't prevent the distribution of TVEC or CSAM, it will just overburden an already broken and fragmented system. We already can't handle the basics of reporting harmful content, let alone all the AI generated CSAM and TVEC content.
Anyone who thinks Chat Control is the answer is a fool with authoritarian leanings.
I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.
It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)
https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/
#Writing #TrustAndSafety#Blog#Security#Infosec#Advocacy#SocialMedia#Online#Dating #OnlineSafetyAct#Moderation#Wellness#Health#PTSD#ADHD #AuDHD#Omelas#SciFi#UrsulaLeGuin
I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.
It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)
https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/
#Writing #TrustAndSafety#Blog#Security#Infosec#Advocacy#SocialMedia#Online#Dating #OnlineSafetyAct#Moderation#Wellness#Health#PTSD#ADHD #AuDHD#Omelas#SciFi#UrsulaLeGuin
