@stefanoStefano Marinelli

You must excuse me, I explained myself badly. Of course I didn't mean the classic private subnets :-) (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16).

Surely IPV6 will be the future, but apart from the change there is still no global coordination for this, and even here the responsible entities are not moving.

PS: I can't wait to have to remember a 128-bit address that adds letters to the whole thing :-P

Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of its Own - George Johnson via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/gttids #ai #historical
https://aliciapatterson.org/george-johnson/eurisko-the-computer-with-a-mind-of-its-own/

📣 Exciting news! Fedify CLI is now available via Homebrew!

If you're using #Homebrew on macOS or #Linuxbrew on Linux, you can now install our CLI toolchain with a simple command:

brew install fedify

This makes it even easier to get started with building your federated server app. Try it out and let us know what you think!

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev #fediverse

It would be neat if at least SOME of the 50? 70? countries that have supposedly called to, er, negotiate with Donald Trump over the "tariff situation" were to stipulate as a condition of not hanging up the phone, that the US stop shipping people to a subcontracted foreign labor camp without due process. Won't hold my breath, but that would be neat. I could respect that.
#USpol

Pixelfed Filters w/ Simple or Advanced mode!

My first iteration was quite complicated, so I turned that into advanced mode and built a wizard to guide you through the process, and I did this without any help from our designers, so expect it to only improve!

Spread the word, pixelfed is getting custom filter support ✨

#pixelfed #customFilters

It would be neat if at least SOME of the 50? 70? countries that have supposedly called to, er, negotiate with Donald Trump over the "tariff situation" were to stipulate as a condition of not hanging up the phone, that the US stop shipping people to a subcontracted foreign labor camp without due process. Won't hold my breath, but that would be neat. I could respect that.
#USpol

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Did you know you can test drive OpenSearch, no install needed! Check out the OpenSearch Playground, a live sandbox to explore OpenSearch’s latest features in your browser. Perfect for trying queries, Dashboards visualizations, or new plugins. https://hubs.la/Q03gm4Vl0

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

ideenzug

Spring is that season when you head out to the post office, and the journey heals your soul.

#Spring #Photography #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Photo #Picture #Italy #Italia

humans like to feed wildlife due to our natural hospitality. we water the plants so that they grow. we proudly make oil paintings depicting animals who are large, healthy, and rectangular

Is there a podcast series exploring #Linux through a blind person? Not for me, for others, but could be worth getting to listen and follow along. If not a podcast, I'll take YouTube, but the person likes podcasts because of RSS feeds. @mastoblindmastoblind group

전남 광양항 연안에 들어왔던 향고래가 닷새간 머물다가 남해 먼바다로 떠났습니다.

“잘 가라~고래야”…광양항 닷새간 머물던 대형 향고래 ...

developing for the fediverse is very complicated. how can we make it more complicated

The Supreme Court has brutally enabled the Trump administration's "path of perfect lawlessness"

Adam Serwer nails it here: https://archive.is/eiFyj

In #thunderbird 128 is it possible to convert Thunderbird's Local Folders format (looks like mbox) to Maildir format?

🚀 EuroPython 2025 tickets are on sale! 🚀 EuroPython isn’t just a conference—it’s a place where developers, data scientists, and Python enthusiasts come together to learn, share, and connect. Whether you want to level up your skills, contribute to open-source projects, or meet like-minded Pythonistas, there's something for everyone.

📅 14–20 July in Prague. We’ve kept ticket prices the same to make the event as accessible as possible!

🎟️ Get your ticket now: https://europython.eu/tickets

With the release of #Grafana 12 in May, #AngularJS support will be fully removed in all Grafana OSS, Cloud, and Enterprise instances. Here’s everything you need to know to prepare. https://grafana.com/blog/2025/04/03/angularjs-support-will-be-removed-in-grafana-12-what-you-need-to-know/?camp=blog&mdm=social

전남 광양항 연안에 들어왔던 향고래가 닷새간 머물다가 남해 먼바다로 떠났습니다.

“잘 가라~고래야”…광양항 닷새간 머물던 대형 향고래 ...

If you say “universal healthcare” 3 times a guy in wraparound sunglasses appears to call you a marxist and then die of preventable disease in a chili’s parking lot

@andypiper outfit request: can you wear your awesome @forgeandcraft Fediverse t-shirt? 🙊 🤗

Staying the Course: Our Continuing Mission

Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared some difficult news, a few of our projects have come to a close after not meeting their funding goals. We know that’s never easy to hear. But we also want to take a moment to share what hasn’t changed – what is continuing, growing, and making a difference every day.

IFTAS is still here. Closing a few projects has allowed us to refocus our funding, and we are fully funded for a year at least. We’re still working, collaborating, researching, advocating, and supporting. The past year has made it clearer than ever that trust and safety infrastructure for the decentralised web isn’t optional – it’s essential.

Here’s what we’re still doing, and why it matters.

📝 Moderator Needs Assessment

Independent moderators are the backbone of the social web, and too often they’re expected to do critical work with little support or recognition. Our Moderator Needs Assessment gathers real data on what moderators need – so that platforms, peers, and funders can respond with resources that actually help. It’s about building a foundation for lasting support, rooted in lived experience. Here’s the latest report.

🌐 CARIAD Domain Observatory

We’re continuing to develop CARIAD, our tool for observing safety signals and behaviours across the federated web. CARIAD offers valuable insight into abuse trends, moderation challenges, and trust indicators – empowering moderators to respond proactively while respecting the values of decentralisation and autonomy. We also still publish our Do-Not-Interact domain denylist, representing domains reviewed and labelled by IFTAS.

🫂 IFTAS Connect

The IFTAS Connect community remains active, supportive, and essential. It’s a place where moderators, admins, researchers, and advocates come together to share advice, resources, and strategies for keeping their communities safe and resilient. Soon, we plan to participate in a co-design effort to create standalone moderation tooling for the Fediverse. Whether you’re new to this work or deeply embedded, Connect is a space for connection and collective problem-solving. Request an account today.

📢 Advocacy and Research

IFTAS continues to represent the interests of decentralised platforms and independent communities in broader discussions about Internet governance, safety regulation, and funding. We provide evidence-informed responses to consultations, highlight the real-world impacts of policy decisions, and advocate for the empowerment, safeguarding, and inclusion of minority and underserved groups. We’re particularly focused on how online harm translates into offline consequences – and how to better bridge that gap in practice and policy.

🛡️ Social Web ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Centre)

The Social Web ISAC is still hard at work, supporting secure, coordinated responses to threats across decentralised networks. Whether it’s technical vulnerabilities, emerging abuse patterns, or cross-network incidents, the ISAC provides a space for timely information-sharing and trusted collaboration. Follow the alerts account.

🤝 Collaboration Across the Ecosystem

We’re also continuing to build bridges with developers, researchers, standards organisations, and fellow non-profits working on digital safety. Our work depends on these relationships – on listening to each other, learning from each other, and pushing for collective solutions that scale with care.

We know the landscape isn’t always easy. Funding can be precarious. The problems are complex. But the need for safe, inclusive, and resilient online communities hasn’t gone away, and neither have we.

IFTAS is still here. Still advocating. Still researching. Still showing up for the people doing this work at the ground level. And we’re glad you’re here with us.

Want to get involved or support what we’re doing? Join the community at connect.iftas.org or get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.

Statement on IFTAS’ Ethical Commitments & Community Relationships

IFTAS was founded to support trust and safety across decentralised social media networks. 

We are guided by a commitment to ethical governance, transparency, and the protection of marginalised and underserved communities online. 

Our work centres evidence-based practices, civil speech, and the creation of safer, more equitable spaces in federated platforms. 

We want to clearly reaffirm: IFTAS does not tolerate violent threats, harassment, or hate speech of any kind.

Over the past week, we have received messages requesting clarity on various activities. For the record:

• IFTAS does not tolerate intolerance,
• IFTAS does not tolerate misgendering or deadnaming,
• IFTAS does not moderate the Fediverse,
• IFTAS has no organisational ties to any third-party denylists, including The Bad Space project,
• IFTAS has no organisational ties to the FediForum event,
• IFTAS has no organisational ties to Nivenly,
• IFTAS has one employee,
• IFTAS does not publish any denylist that blocks entire portions of marginalised communities,
• IFTAS has a permissive linking policy, and this will change.

We expand on each of these statements below. 

Our Focus

Our focus is on supporting informed, contextualised decision-making – never on enforcing top-down rules or creating centralised controls. We encourage transparent moderation practices and community-specific policies that reflect local values and safety needs. We solicit input from the community, and then convene and work with any and all who have elected to engage with our community, subject to our community participation guidelines. 

We remain committed to our mission and to the communities we serve. We will not be deterred from this work by those seeking to distract or divide. The safety and dignity of marginalised people remains at the core of all we do.

IFTAS does not tolerate intolerance.

Our Community Participation Guidelines describes the conduct we expect from our community members when engaged with IFTAS, representing IFTAS, or in IFTAS spaces. 

IFTAS does not tolerate misgendering or deadnaming.

As can be evidenced by our work in this area, we are proud to have been a part of the advocacy that moved over 50 providers to explicitly prohibit targeted misgendering, deadnaming, as well as promotion or endorsement of so-called “conversion therapy”.

IFTAS does not moderate the Fediverse.

We convene and support the people who moderate content and behaviour online. We ask the moderator community what they most need help with, and we use the results of that survey to determine what IFTAS should work on. IFTAS moderates its own spaces. We do not moderate any third-party instances, and we do not expect nor demand that our community members moderate their instance(s) in any particular way. Any tools we build take the needs of the service administrator first, and leave all moderation decisions up to the service administrator. We advocate for civil speech, inclusivity, and equitable approaches. We can, by definition, only work with the people who engage with us. We do not seek to become a centralising authority, but we do seek to convene and find common ground where appropriate to reduce burden on moderators, to share the load, and to spread best practice.

IFTAS has no organisational ties to any third-party denylists, including The Bad Space project. 

As part of our library of resources, IFTAS links to a range of denylist resources to be investigated by decentralised service providers, moderators, and community leaders, including a project called The Bad Space, which is a catalogue of observed federation policies based on the aggregation of findings made by nine instances. The current publicly listed sources are rage.love, queer.group, indiepocalypse.social, blackqueer.life, queer.garden, mastodon.art, solarpunk.moe, colorid.es, and cathode.church. 

As best as can be seen from the project web site, the catalogue of domains for The Bad Space is openly collected, organised, and published. The project is maintained and hosted by heuristic instruments. The project lead is not a participant in any IFTAS activity.

IFTAS has no organisational ties to any of the third-party denylists listed on our Library page and does not endorse or recommend any third-party denylists. 

IFTAS has no organisational ties to the FediForum event. 

We attend, we often conduct a session or two, and we listen and learn from what others in the space are doing. We sponsor tickets for moderators, seeking to bring a diverse set of voices to the event. We use this event to advocate for trust and safety for minority and marginalised groups, and to highlight issues we believe the platform and app developers that attend should be aware of. 

When we learned of transphobic social media posts made by one of the organisers, we were horrified, as was anyone we knew who was also considering attending. We would not have attended had it gone ahead with the organiser in place, but the event’s other organiser quickly removed the organiser who made the problematic posts from the event, and pivoted to a listening session, cancelling the usual activities. We applaud this approach and have pledged to work with new governance of the event to help create a safer, more diverse space. 

IFTAS has no organisational ties to Nivenly. 

While we are supportive of the organisation, we have never funded them, we are peer entities that exist in the same space. Once, IFTAS executive director Jaz-Michael King was asked to review and comment on a proposal titled “FSEP” funded by Nivenly. He was not paid. He reviewed the document, he commented on the document, but it was up to the author to take those comments on board or not.

IFTAS has one employee.

IFTAS is predominantly volunteer-driven. One full time, unpaid volunteer performs all administrative work; a volunteer non-profit board oversees the compliance, financials and legal requirements of operating a non-profit; and a group of volunteer advisors offer their expertise as and when available. From time to time, IFTAS has hired sub-contractors to perform specific scopes of work.

At one time, IFTAS attempted to create a small cadre of moderators to react to our work. We offered an honorarium-type stipend, specifically to ensure the group was diverse and not asked to provide free labour. Part of our non-profit mission is to support the uncompensated labour provided by the hardworking moderator community. The individuals that participated in this short-lived project were never employees, nor sub-contractors, although some did request and receive the honorarium. This group partially met once, and it proved to be a non-starter, no further meetings were held. No work of any kind was ever achieved, and later that year one participant was removed from IFTAS spaces after making deeply inappropriate public remarks, conduct that contravened our Community Participation Guidelines.

IFTAS does not publish any denylist that blocks entire portions of marginalised communities.

Our block recommendations and data are entirely public, transparent, and human-reviewed. No third-party list ever became an IFTAS resource. 

IFTAS publishes three resources with regard to federating domains.

1. A Do Not Interact list. This is an importable list that recommends blocking 72 domains (at time of writing). Each domain has been reviewed and labelled by IFTAS, no-one else. Each domain is highly recommended for defederation due to risk of service abuse, intolerant hateful conduct, or illegal content.
2. A Domain Observatory. This is not a denylist, it cannot be imported, it is a database that describes what domains are blocked by the largest, most active Mastodon service providers. 
3. IFTAS occasionally publishes alerts for Fediverse service providers which may include a domain block recommendation. All these alerts can be reviewed at https://mastodon.iftas.org/@sw_isac 

Various Fediverse admins have reached out to IFTAS over the past year to request we remove them from our denylists, having been misinformed that IFTAS is in some way responsible for their domain being on one or more third-party denylists. In all cases, we had not blocked or recommended blocking the domain(s).

We have, however, received persistent abuse and harassment from the domains we do recommend blocking.

IFTAS has a permissive linking policy, and this will change

IFTAS currently lists a wide range of tools, research, and third-party resources submitted by members of the community for the benefit of all moderators and administrators. However, we also recognise that inclusion in our resource library may be interpreted as endorsement or affiliation even when we state otherwise. IFTAS will begin consulting with community members and advisors on what actions we may need to take to review our approach. 

We acknowledge that not all of our decisions will satisfy every party, and we respect the right to engage in principled disagreement. However, targeted harassment of IFTAS volunteers – who are often marginalised individuals themselves – crosses a boundary. IFTAS volunteers are not public figures. We ask that any criticism of our organisation or its work be directed through appropriate channels. Our community spaces are designed for collaboration, learning, and respectful disagreement. Our communications channels are the best way to reach IFTAS directly – our email is contact@iftas.org and our fediverse address is @iftas

IFTAS was founded to make governance and moderation tooling and resources available to the communities who need and request them, and that’s what we’re still working on. Our next blog post will walk through the activities and projects we’re putting front and center for the rest of 2025. We wrote this post to clarify our orientation toward our work, the resources we list, the communities and organizations we work alongside, and the actions we’ve taken when people inside IFTAS spaces have behaved in unacceptable ways.

I’ll be at International Journalism Festival #ijf25 in Perugia this week. There’s a fediwall with hashtagged posts here: https://andyp.url.lol/ijf25

OpenSSH 10.0 released https://lobste.rs/s/tppp5b #networking #security
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/09/1

Hardening the Firefox Frontend with Content Security Policies https://lobste.rs/s/hw8zvr #browsers #security
https://attackanddefense.dev/2025/04/09/hardening-the-firefox-frontend-with-content-security-policies.html

Designer wanted! We're looking for someone to design a logo and icons for Open Infrastructure Map. This is a paid contract.

More info & how to apply: https://github.com/openinframap/openinframap/discussions/216

#OpenStreetMap #design #webdesign

We have now published #NiyaDobazova video, links & transcript
https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/niya-dobazova/
Niya is new to our industry and this was her first talk

@pixolinBego Mario Garde @BroGle as long as you know what you're checking for.

Punching down in a joke, even in an ironic/knowing-taboo sense, doesn't feel nice for the people in the group being hit.

If you're at #IJF25 next week, I'd love to say hi!

Particularly excited to chat about:

- Building a high-functioning technology culture
- #opensource for newsrooms
- Maintaining source anonymity
- The #fediverse / #atprotocol
- Collab with open source projects

But also, I'd love to hang out!

We're heading to Perugia for the #InternationalJournalismFestival

We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza 🍕

If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi!

Whilst we're away, if you have any issues with Newsmast or our other services, reach out directly to support@newsmast.org

#Newsmast #SocialWeb #IJF25 #Fediverse #Mastodon #IJF

Come join Stellina Chen and me on Thursday for our cartoon workshop at the International Journalism Festival!

https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2025/the-power-of-editorial-cartoons-3

The session will also be live-streamed.

#ijf25

We have now published #NiyaDobazova video, links & transcript
https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/niya-dobazova/
Niya is new to our industry and this was her first talk

i think we need a new term to describe this direction where platforms use atproto for metadata and identity, and use their own systems for the rest of their platforms. current examples are @roomy.chat and @tangled.shTangled but as bryan indicates the design space is v large and underexplored

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:44ybard66vv44zksje25o7dz/post/3lmdjzfpoc22f

📣 Exciting news! Fedify CLI is now available via Homebrew!

If you're using #Homebrew on macOS or #Linuxbrew on Linux, you can now install our CLI toolchain with a simple command:

brew install fedify

This makes it even easier to get started with building your federated server app. Try it out and let us know what you think!

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev #fediverse

If you have used and loved #Tailscale, and you still like the product but want a sensible insurance option to reduce your exposure to potential #enshittification, what *hosted* options have you looked at as alternatives?

Part of the appeal of #Tailscale for me at least was that they provided a really thoughtful UX layer over some existing cool OSS tech like #wireguard.

Also, many of us have tried self-hosting and want to minimise what they self host if at all possible.
https://mastodon.social/@JonathanGerlach/114302498688902923

@matt_trentini nice!

Here's a new port for the TI AM1808 in progress. 😎

https://fosstodon.org/@laurensvalk/114279739832004562

📣 Exciting news! Fedify CLI is now available via Homebrew!

If you're using #Homebrew on macOS or #Linuxbrew on Linux, you can now install our CLI toolchain with a simple command:

brew install fedify

This makes it even easier to get started with building your federated server app. Try it out and let us know what you think!

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev #fediverse

📣 Exciting news! Fedify CLI is now available via Homebrew!

If you're using #Homebrew on macOS or #Linuxbrew on Linux, you can now install our CLI toolchain with a simple command:

brew install fedify

This makes it even easier to get started with building your federated server app. Try it out and let us know what you think!

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev #fediverse

✅ Implement auto-expanding <details>

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1724299

📣 Exciting news! Fedify CLI is now available via Homebrew!

If you're using #Homebrew on macOS or #Linuxbrew on Linux, you can now install our CLI toolchain with a simple command:

brew install fedify

This makes it even easier to get started with building your federated server app. Try it out and let us know what you think!

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev #fediverse

the order of files in your ext4 filesystem does not matter https://lobste.rs/s/8w5blq #linux
https://thewisenerd.com/blog/ext4-readdir/

#HelloWorld #Introduction

Call me Abbie, I'm a researcher currently delving into the complex and ever-evolving field of technopolitics. My work focuses on the intersection of technology, power dynamics, and societal impact, with the aim of better understanding how technological advancements shape political structures and influence global governance.

Great initiative. I reported this incident where a man inserted himself in a girl’s game and and tried to ban a girl from being able to play her sport. https://www.gbnews.com/sport/football/rosslyn-park-cobham-under-12s-transgender-2671634098
https://aus.social/@warkolm/114305750334317058

Today’s board meeting look is “goth on vacation”:

Great initiative. I reported this incident where a man inserted himself in a girl’s game and and tried to ban a girl from being able to play her sport. https://www.gbnews.com/sport/football/rosslyn-park-cobham-under-12s-transgender-2671634098
https://aus.social/@warkolm/114305750334317058

#HamburgWerbefrei #Volksbegehren @hhwerbefreiInitiative Hamburg Werbefrei

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