julian on Nostr: One of the interesting items that came out of this year's FediForum was a speed demo ...

One of the interesting items that came out of this year's FediForum was a speed demo by [@thisismissem@hachyderm.io](https://hachyderm.io/users/thisismissem) for IFTAS FediCheck, an upcoming service that will allow Mastodon server administrators to subscribe to specific one or more CARIADs — Consensus Aggregated Retractable IFTAS Allowlist Denylist — and have them automatically maintained by FediCheck.


This sort of work is hugely important for Trust & Safety. At a local level, the work required to ensure T&S scales linearly with your community size. This goes out the window when you factor in the ability to network with separate instances each with their own culture, community, etc. — suddenly, a small intimate forum with a single admin could become inundated with inappropriate content from outside of the local instance.


Being in-development, IFTAS FediCheck is Mastodon-only, but there are huge benefits to the broader fediverse network of applications, NodeBB included.


We could lobby (likely unsuccessfully) for IFTAS to support NodeBB, but it would definitely be better overall if IFTAS supported an API that we could build plugins/libraries against.


For more information about IFTAS: [@iftas@mastodon.iftas.org](https://mastodon.iftas.org/users/iftas)