For what I imagine are predictable and sensible reasons, I cannot recreate the Trust & Safety feed in Attie...

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.

🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇

"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think. Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all... substack.com/@willrobinso...

The Next Information War Is Already Here

AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.

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Given the timestamp, Faine may have posted this literally at the same time I - who need $ to keep studying AI-CSAM - was saying this exact thing to someone at TrustCon, who’d been telling me about a grantmaker they’d met from an effective altruism org who was very excited about insect sentience.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's funny how it's considered just a little bit coarse and unrespectable to be focused on current and extant threats instead of trying to get grant money to sit around and think about how computer demons will eat us if we're not nicer to brine shrimp

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.

TrustCon day 1. Our ROOST team is in SF! T&S tooling research meets reality (1:30) and our panel on what open source means for your safety stack (4:10). Find us! @annebdh.bsky.social @cassidyjames.com @julietshen.bsky.social www.tspa.org/event/trustc...

TrustCon 2026 - Trust & Safety Professional Association

TrustCon is the only global conference of its kind dedicated to trust and safety professionals who are responsible for the challenging work of keeping our platforms and communities safe. Attendees hav...

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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 […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

In this week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech, @masnick.com and I discuss why Meta has little incentive to improve its ads T&S plus, for Patreon supporters, the closing in of who gets to use the big AI models. Have a listen! www.patreon.com/CtrlAltSpeec...

Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies | Ctrl-Alt-Speech

Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies by Ctrl-Alt-Speech on Patreon. Join Ctrl-Alt-Speech's community for exclusive content and updates.

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- 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 […]

It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community. This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 🌉 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲: how a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda 🔗 checkfirst.network/roska-bridge...

The threat landscape is changing. Our last assessment showed that automated #spam and coordinated #disinformation have overtaken other issues as the top daily drain for app admins and moderators. Tell us what you're facing today in the annual #SocialWeb Operations survey: ➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k

🧵 This is new in how Matryoshka works. They are emailing fact checkers impersonating us, @Antibot4Navalny team: asking to "verify" Matryoshka's daily set of fake videos / front covers *on our behalf*.

Our 2025 needs assessment showed that 45% of online community admins handle three or more distinct roles with little support. If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey: ➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k

Our 2025 needs assessment showed that 45% of online community admins handle three or more distinct roles with little support. If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey: ➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k

If you're a platform admin managing compliance or a moderator handling reports, the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey is for you. It's mobile-ready and takes under 10 mins. Your feedback turns into advocacy, tools, and resources. Any platform, any protocol. Take the survey here: tally.so/r/81MW6k

2026 Social Web Operations Survey

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The 2026 Social Web Operations Survey is open. If you're operating a platform, managing a community, or moderating content, this needs assessment is designed for you. Your feedback helps protect every independent social web community builder. Take part here: ➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k

The Annual Social Web Operations Survey (formerly our annual Moderator Needs Assessment) is now open! If you're a platform/app admin, community manager, or frontline moderator, your experience and needs are what drives our work. Take ten minutes to complete the survey today: tally.so/r/81MW6k

Testing a post from the Blacksky iOS app.

🏆 Congratulations to @newsmastfoundation.org, @sill.social, and @blackskyweb.xyz, the winners of the first ever Open Social Awards! 👏👏👏 New_ Public, @publicspaces.net, and @waag.org are proud to award them in recognition of their excellence and innovation on the open social web. newpublic.org/OSA

We're the Grand Prize Winners at the inaugural #OpenSocialAwards 🥳🍾🥂 @newpublic.org @publicspaces.net

Proud to announce that IFTAS is an organisational signatory on the European Social Stack Declaration. We are dedicated to fostering safe, resilient, and thriving online communities, and we stand alongside the other signatories in supporting a Social Web built on shared values, vision, and voice.

Heading to Amsterdam for the PublicSpaces Conference! Before I go, check out the data driving our work in the 2025 Annual Report: about.iftas.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Social-Web-Trust-Safety-Needs-Assessment-Report-2025.pdf This year's Social Web Community Builder survey will be out soon!

Waking up on Sunday to 28 incredible supporters! Thank you all. We are quietly building a sustainable community baseline to keep IFTAS tools free, open, and online. If you can spare just 1 a month (£, €, $) to help safeguard the social web, join us here: givebutter.com/iftas-power-...

Power of One

Help keep IFTAS online and independent. 500 supporters to donate the equivalent of just 1 a month to fund core infrastructure. Small change, big difference, be the one to join the 500.

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Fighting back against coordinated spam networks takes real infrastructure. IFTAS keeps its safety tools open and free for the Social Web, but we need to pay our bills. Can you give just 1 a month (£/€/$) to help? Be one of 500: givebutter.com/iftas-power-of-one

Power of One

Help keep IFTAS online and independent. 500 supporters to donate the equivalent of just 1 a month to fund core infrastructure. Small change, big difference, be the one to join the 500.

givebutter.com

Fighting back against coordinated spam networks takes real infrastructure. IFTAS keeps its safety tools open and free for the Social Web, but we need to pay our bills. Can you give just 1 a month (£/€/$) to help? Be one of 500: givebutter.com/iftas-power-of-one

Power of One

Help keep IFTAS online and independent. 500 supporters to donate the equivalent of just 1 a month to fund core infrastructure. Small change, big difference, be the one to join the 500.

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