Help Shape the Future of Moderation in the Fediverse
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Running a community in the Fediverse means balancing openness with safety. Every year, @iftas takes the pulse of administrators, moderators, and community managers with their Annual Needs Assessment. This survey helps identify what’s working, where support is needed, and which tools can make a difference for those keeping decentralized spaces safe.
The 2025 survey is now open
Take part in the IFTAS Needs Assessment (5–10 minutes).
(If you haven’t seen them before, you can also take a look at last year’s report)
Last year’s responses represented moderators of over 4.3 million accounts across ActivityPub platforms. With WordPress now the largest group of federating instances, it’s especially important for our community of hosts, site admins, and moderators to be heard.
Moderation in WordPress: From Site-Wide to Personal Controls
We recently introduced a major update to the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress: personalized and site-wide moderation tools.
- Site administrators can now set domain, keyword, and actor-level blocks that protect the entire site.
- Individual users can fine-tune their own experience with personal blocks, managed directly from their profiles.
- Content is checked against both global and personal rules—so moderation works at every level.
These improvements directly address needs raised in previous IFTAS surveys, making moderation more discoverable, flexible, and effective for WordPress communities in the Fediverse.
Your Input Matters
IFTAS uses the Needs Assessment to guide tools, policies, and advocacy that reflect the real-world challenges of moderators—especially those in under-resourced communities. The more representative the responses, the stronger the outcomes for everyone.
If you’re running a federating WordPress site, please consider:
- Filling out the survey yourself.
- Sharing it with other admins, moderators, and community organizers.
- Reminding folks that it’s anonymous, quick, and impactful.
Together, we can keep building a safer, healthier Fediverse—one that reflects the needs of its communities.
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@MisterMaker No, maybe it's not special. But it's mine, and solved a lot of problems in the past, when those smart things wheren't even available. Sometimes you don't need rocket science to have some fun 🙂
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@feld My Netatmo doesn't do all that, and neither do the other thermostats connected to the other boilers I have access to.
Fundamentally, those are things the boiler handles (if it's less than 20 years old), not the thermostat. My boiler, even though it's 10 years old, has all these internal features; it also controls the water temperature, etc.
The thermostat is just for deciding if the house is cold or not - I expect all the other controls to be handled by the burner itself.
In other words, I'm not replacing the internal thermostat (the one that regulates the flow temperature, etc.), just the room thermostat. Besides, my sensor is located very far from the boiler, which is in a separate, ventilated room.
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Ok, sono pronto per la serata.
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@stefano I wish I could find the HN comment by the Honeywell engineer that talks about like 6 different safety features none of the open source DIY thermostats have but I cannot seem to find it anymore. Stuff like
- it needs to lock out instead of continuing to try to start the gas heat so you don't flood the house with gas if the ignition is faulty
- it needs to automatically turn on the heat no matter what if if gets too cold
- it needs a mechanical safety feature to shut itself off if the heat gets stuck on
etc etc
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gianchetti ... plurale ... 🤗
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@Tiz
Per tenere vivo il ricordo? 🤔🤪
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@meejah @hipsterelectron @operand @be ah wonderful! the readme makes it sound like it has some rough edges but probably more or less supports the basic feature set I actually use. I will try it out some time this weekend. thanks!
