This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This year, Wikipedia is celebrating 25 years as the Internet’s encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In its first decade, the quirky experiment for passionate nerds exploded in popularity. It became a ubiquitous information resource and a homework helper for...
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Building fanfiction.lol taught me that some promises are impossible to keep. I wanted canonical tags for everything and 'write whatever you want' as a tagline, but Canadian obscenity laws and the philosophical complexity of tag wrangling forced me to adjust. Here's what I learned about running a community archive, the legal constraints I face, and the promises I can still keep.
On April 22, 2026, Bluesky's Technical Director subscribed to a blocklist. Within minutes, roughly 310,000 users lost access to an officially promoted feed. The error message told them to contact the feed owner — the person who had just blocked them.
Overview of thoughful and protective design of tooling for moderating user-generated content, placing emphasis on minimising the psychological effects of exposure to heinous content, while balancing efficiency, accuracy, and the long-term wellbeing of trust and safety teams. Covering techniques for the mitigation of impact where applicable.
Funkwhale is building a new mechanism to filtering out music from Nazis and White Supremacists. In doing so, this opens a can of worms.
Rudy Fraser built BlackSky, a safe community space carved from BlueSky using custom feeds and ATProto tools for Black creators.
Mastodon Engineering has announced a new network-wide effort to create a framework for service providers offering a variety of capabilities.
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The European Union Digital Services Act is upon us! But don't worry - our favorite Trust & Safety organization is here to demystify compliance.
A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.
The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.
As the Fediverse continues to grow, new challenges arise in community management and user safety. A new organization seeks to make it easier.
An in-depth report reveals an ugly truth about isolated, unmoderated parts of the Fediverse. It's a solvable problem, with challenges.