silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social: @p This is a good analysis, and I can confirm that there is indeed some coordination between the organizations and people you mentioned. I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, though. I know some of them well enough to conclude that it is a not a single organization, but a loose group. Some of them seem to be fake, but others seem to be sincere in their convictions. I'd like to share a couple of additional links you may find interesting: - <a class="link-in-note" href="https://about.iftas.org/yoel/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://about.iftas.org/yoel/</a> Remember this guy? Given the timing, I suspect that some of these projects were supposed to be sinecures for former Twitter employees. - <a class="link-in-note" href="https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/140" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/140</a> This is a draft of a FEP about mandatory CSAM scanning. As one of the FEP repo maintainers, I immediately raised concerns about privacy, centralization, etc. That made me persona non grata at W3C.

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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-04-18 04:50:38)
:globalistlocated: Lotta fluoride moving through the glowieverse. Welcome to Friday Hell. Hold onto your :manhattan3: while I poke the global surveillance bear. :terryno:

TL;DR: :glowing::glowinthedark::globalistlocated::plasticbottle::fluoride::drinkfluoride::manhattan3: INDEPENDENT FEDERATED TRUST AND SAFETY (but first I talk about mirroring for a couple of paragraphs)

A lot of the URLs can be mirrored to your instance locally and read/replied to/reposted on your instance without making you look at the glowie servers. Paste the URLs into the search bar, they'll show up on your instance. This should probably be easier in most FEs.⁰

:zerocool::acidburn::lordnikon: You know what's better than archive.today links? Mirroring the shit onto a few dozen fedi instances. You put, e.g., https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ into the search bar, it is mirrored to your instance. If you reply to it or repost it (or you are on Pleroma and you smash dat like), it is mirrored to instances where someone follows you. :phantomphreak::plague::cereal:

:glowing: IFTAS is making another push for centralizing fedi. IFTAS is a surveillance/steering organization that has enough overlap with Newsmast, the Social Web Foundation, Oliphant, FediMod, indieweb.social, hachyderm.io, that they are effectively the same organization. (Sockpuppets are bad when you're LITERALLY HARASSING JOURNALISTS but it is fine to use orgs as sockpuppets. These people spin up 501(c)(3)s faster than most of us spin up domains. The orgs are, not coincidentally, all based in .us/.de/.uk/.ca.) Here's who they are: https://about.iftas.org/advisory/ .

:glowinthedark: The organizations get government/corporate funding through organizations like nlnet or the Social Web Foudnation ( https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/03/27/defederation-on-the-fediverse/ ) or the Ford Foundation through the DIIF. They use this sort of thing as a mechanism to pay themselves, so Newsmast "buys" indieweb.so
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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-04-18 07:34:36)
@p This is a good analysis, and I can confirm that there is indeed some coordination between the organizations and people you mentioned. I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, though. I know some of them well enough to conclude that it is a not a single organization, but a loose group. Some of them seem to be fake, but others seem to be sincere in their convictions.

I'd like to share a couple of additional links you may find interesting:

- https://about.iftas.org/yoel/

Remember this guy? Given the timing, I suspect that some of these projects were supposed to be sinecures for former Twitter employees.

- https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/140

This is a draft of a FEP about mandatory CSAM scanning. As one of the FEP repo maintainers, I immediately raised concerns about privacy, centralization, etc. That made me persona non grata at W3C.


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pistolero@p@fsebugoutzone.org (2026-04-18 10:45:37)
@silverpill 

> This is a good analysis, and I can confirm that there is indeed some coordination between the organizations and people you mentioned.

:bigbosssalute: Thank ye.

> I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, though.

I'm a fuckin' lunatic, I'll call it one.

> I know some of them well enough to conclude that it is a not a single organization, but a loose group.

The thing is they put out tendrils without acknowledging the coordination or any other kind of transparency about who decided what and when and why.  Like, Seirdy puts out his receipts, IFTAS just declares things and then calls people enemies of progress and says "Well, you can't just have a website where people say whatever they want":  this behavior is as good as an acknowledgement of an agenda that they don't want to publicize.

> others seem to be sincere in their convictions.

Oh, yeah, I mean, I can acknowledge that.  I think a lot of them are sincere in their convictions the way Bob McNamara was, though.  "Taquiyya is praxis."  I don't doubt that there are some that hear these things they're saying and agree with them and push them.

> - https://about.iftas.org/yoel/

Am I missing something?  It's just a photo of the guy's head.

> Remember this guy? Given the timing, I suspect that some of these projects were supposed to be sinecures for former Twitter employees.

That is interesting.

> - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/140
> This is a draft of a FEP about mandatory CSAM scanning. As one of the FEP repo maintainers, I immediately raised concerns about privacy, centralization, etc. That made me persona non grata at W3C.

*Very* interesting.

Evan Prodromou, "Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation." says:

> This conversation is not very fruitful, so I'm withdrawing the PR. I'm going to rework this proposal and submit it to the SocialCG directly instead.

And Jaz shows up as well.  Very interesting conversation; worth reading.

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Phantasm@phnt@fluffytail.org (2026-04-18 16:56:12)
@silverpill @p Doesn't surprise me Evan was involved in that once again. But Gleason actually figured something usable years prior to that with the NSFW MRF. You could easily host an API server and use some local selfhosted model for detection.