IFTAS - Independent Federated Trust & Safety

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We support moderators on federated social media. Learn more at https://about.iftas.org Follow our bridged posts feed: @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy

Promotional graphic for the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey, formerly known as the Moderator Needs Assessment. Text reads: "Now Open. Moderators, admins, community managers... your voice matters. Any platform, any protocol."
Community Manager 58% Content Moderator 87% Legal / Compliance 34% Service Administrator 89%
Promotional graphic for the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey. Text reads: "Now Open. Moderators, admins, community managers... your voice matters. Any platform, any protocol."
Promotional graphic for the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey, formerly known as the Moderator Needs Assessment. Text reads: "Now Open. Moderators, admins, community managers... your voice matters. Any platform, any protocol."
A chart showing the various platforms our survey respondents moderate for
Chart showing 21.4% of moderators reporting burnout or mental health issues over the past 12 months
Chart showing "I have enough knowledge and resources to adequately manage and moderate my service" Strongly disagree 1.8%, Somewhat disagree 15.5%, Somewhat agree 50%, Strongly agree 32.7%
Mastodon posts reading "Really enthusiastic about @iftas.org and the potential to share knowledge, support, etc between activitypub and atproto worlds on all this.” “Tilley. I think our best collaborative effort so far is all the tooling and infrastructure IFTAS is bringing to the table. They're sponsoring the development of some really powerful stuff that could help a lot of communities, and providing severely needed resources, too.” “Greg Scallan. Even on Flipboard, we regularly disable or otherwise limit hundreds of accounts created daily which have bad actors behind them. A major goal we have to to never allow these accounts to federate to begin with, but it is a cat and mouse game, so IFTAS and AP node admins working together will be crucial to a safe social environment.” “Tim Chambers. I am excited to be helping the @iftas efforts & as an admin at Indieweb. Social, our server is now an early beta tester of their new FediCheck system. Am very impressed and giving notes to the dev team. It's a crucial tool to help the #Fediverse up its game in terms of content moderation & distributed trust & safety. Am excited to implement it here. If any users here see any issues DM me. But so far, so good.” “Johannes Ernst. If you are wondering what legal obligations you might have as an operator of a #Fediverse server that might be used by Europeans, IFTAS produced this handy guide.”
Mastodon posts which say things like “#IFTAS is building so many things that are incredibly important: moderator stipend funds, a portal for learning from other moderators & exchanging notes & building fellowship, CSAM detection tools, labelers, protection for at-risk moderators.” “One of the sessions at #FediForum focused on CSAM, quite a tough topic. If you host your own instance, even if it's just YOU on that instance, you need to consider taking action to protect yourself and your moderation team. Kudos to @thisismissem and @iftas for exploring new ways to manage this without scarring moderators for life.” “IFTAS is amazing, and so is all the work @thisismissem is doing! IFTAS is the perfect org that could eventually maintain FediDB, its growing increasingly important to the fedi and an org like that could manage it long term better than I might be able to.” “It's been really interesting to see the team at @iftas discussing their vision for connecting moderators across the Fediverse. At Newsmast we've been reaching out to other moderators and admins to help us with content we may not have the context or language skills to understand. It'll be great to have a simple way for moderators to communicate and learn from one another!” “I'm excited about IFTAS Connect. It's a great platform, and considerable thought seems to have gone into making it safe and productive.” “Thank you to IFTAS for their important work to make the fediverse more inclusive, safe, and welcoming.”
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Screenshot of part of the CrowdIn translation effort showing French and Brazilian Portuguese as 100% translated. German, Italian and Portuguese as 2% translated. Scottish Gaelic as 3% translated. Korean as 7% translated. And Bengali, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian at 0%.
Screenshot of part of the CrowdIn translation effort showing French and Brazilian Portuguese as 100% translated. German, Italian and Portuguese as 2% translated. Scottish Gaelic as 3% translated. Korean as 7% translated. And Bengali, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian at 0%.
A person with medium light skin tone, short black hair and black stubble, wearing black glasses, smiles broadly while taking a selfie. Behind them is a white wall with a red triangle whose tip bends to slant to the side behind them.
screenshot of IFTAS connects library section including guides and how tos of mastodon moderation and educational resources, wellness and resilience like conflict de-escalation and resolution and coping with exposure to traumatic content, legal and regulatory information like what is PII and CSAM reporting requirements, tools and resources like denylist management and reserved words, community management including responding to self harm and suicidal content, and IFTAS documentation.
Screenshot of part of IFTAS connect with news showing last week in Fediverse, FediVision 2024 is Live, Bluesky introduces direct messages, and a primer on Mastodon's new board members.
screenshot of part of IFTAS connect showing discussions, groups and members. Under discussions are active discussions and new discussions. Under groups are group membership and active groups. Under members are new arrivals and recently active.
A section of the tracking spreadsheet showing each server's status
A yellow background with orange and blue text over it reading “Happy DAF Day. Let’s DAF to trust and safety.” On the right is a photo of a group of people sat on a sofa using a laptop together. The IFTAS logo is in the bottom left.
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Screenshot of part of IFTAS connect with news showing last week in Fediverse, FediVision 2024 is Live, Bluesky introduces direct messages, and a primer on Mastodon's new board members.
screenshot of part of IFTAS connect showing discussions, groups and members. Under discussions are active discussions and new discussions. Under groups are group membership and active groups. Under members are new arrivals and recently active.
screenshot of IFTAS connects library section including guides and how tos of mastodon moderation and educational resources, wellness and resilience like conflict de-escalation and resolution and coping with exposure to traumatic content, legal and regulatory information like what is PII and CSAM reporting requirements, tools and resources like denylist management and reserved words, community management including responding to self harm and suicidal content, and IFTAS documentation.
A view of nine member groups available on IFTAS Connect
Screenshot of the FediCheck app showing a denylist option
Screenshot of the IFTAS Connect moderator library
Front cover of the DSA Guidebook
Screenshot of the FediCheck app showing the number of domains blocked by the service