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Emelia 👸🏻@thisismissem@hachyderm.io (2026-06-18 03:23:30)
We're now actively seeing attrition on people contributing to the ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce because we've failed to secure funding to pay people to do the required work, which is to the detriment of the entire fediverse.

It is not pretty or headline catching work, but it is necessary work that underpins the very social fabric of the fediverse.

It's now been 205 days since I submitted an application with @nlnet to try to secure funding for this work. That's almost 7 months.

The only update I've received to date was on 9th March 2026 that simply stated "your project "ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce" (2025-12-371) has been selected to enter the second round of the December 2025 call"

The email did include "Note that proposals are reviewed with regards to urgency, relevance and value for money.", so my only logical conclusion is that NLNet does not see trust & safety work as urgently needed, relevant or value for money 🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe there's another funding organisation that wants to fund the taskforce? So far I haven't seen an appropriate fund.