Nonprofit trust and safety support for volunteer social web content moderators, community managers, administrators and more.
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Moderator Community
Volunteer moderators are the backbone of the open social web, performing a vital service with little to no support. Our community offers best practices, documentation, wellness tools, shared stories, and more. Learn more.
Trust & Safety Support
The social web can benefit from tried and trusted services used worldwide, but these resources cost money. IFTAS offers help with legal and compliance issues, cybersecurity, and useful apps and APIs to provide solutions for common problems. Learn more.
Moderation-as-a-Service
IFTAS plans to offer detection and reporting services, as well as denylist management, spam account support, security and privacy tools and – if needed – hands-on content moderation. Learn more.
From the community
Our Moderator Needs Assessment drives our activities, read the latest report
“It would be nice to have a centralized and effective CSAM reporting site.“
“need info and updates on current disinformation campaigns online“
“a basic modifiable template for a privacy policy … as well as best procedures for DMCA notices“
“the shared blocklists are likely the big win – they aggregate the efforts of a large number of low-intensity moderators and thus concentrate a large amount of human judgment into a powerful resource“
“Tips for incorporating as a business“
“together we are stronger“
The Social Web
24,500
Individual servers operated around the world, all connected to the “Fediverse”
47
Open platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed and WordPress, offering alternatives to big tech social media
12.5 M
User accounts created on the open social web
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About Us
We are IFTAS, supporting independent social media to foster and preserve an inclusive, civil, social web.
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contact@iftas.org
100 Main St. # 270
Ossining, NY 10562
United States
Latest News
- Welcoming Shauna Gordon-McKeon
- Targeted Misgendering and Deadnaming in the Fediverse
- Moderating the Fediverse: Threads from Instagram
- IFTAS CSAM Roadmap
- Open Call: Moderator Council Members
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