A collection of awesome resources for running your own federated social media website.

This folder contains scripts to generate the blocklist files. See the blocklists folder for blocklist files.

This is a curated place to find server blocklists for your own use. An algorithm combines multiple Trusted Source blocklists together and gives you a great deal of choice on which blocklist you want to use, along with transparency into how these are derived.

I'm sharing this with others who want to start their Mastodon instance with a sensible list of domains that should be defederated. Download any of the lists on this page you like, depending on your desired amount of blocking.

The RapidBlock Project is a grassroots initiative to make Fediverse domain blocking more effective through collective action.

Moderation on the Fediverse is unevenly distributed. Some instance admins devotedly follow the #FediBlock hashtag, blocking abusive servers within hours of their first appearance on the network. Others wait until their own users file a report. Still others do nothing at all.

This uneven distribution of moderation allows abusive instances to do significant psychological harm. Abusive instances are a fast-moving target; setting up a new Mastodon instance takes only an hour or two, as does resetting an instance to give it a new domain name. This gives abusers a substantial time window in which there are a lot of available victims to target.

The RapidBlock Project is something different: humans are in the loop at every step of the decision-making process, and the only thing that is automated is the actual propagation of the decisions. Moderation is hard, especially good moderation. Moderation is a full-time job, and many Fediverse admins aren't taking up that mantle of responsibility. We are trying to build a central moderation team with a clear, published rationale for our blocking criteria and a clear dispute process for remediating mistaken blocks.

Perspective is a free API that uses machine learning to identify toxic comments, making it easier to host better conversations online.

A moderation tool for Matrix. Set ACLs, ban and unban users, dry-run mode, antispam. Written in Javascript but nobody's perfect.