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1. Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:22:00 JST Phantasm

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   @mint @fba It's a few "volunteers", some of which are recognizable at least to me.

   There's the guy that brought us the AP is unsafe by design gem of an article or the I welcome [...] sex worker Twitter to the fediverses article. Don't actually bother reading them, it's not worth for the short laugh at the headline.

   And then there's the psycho face writer and researcher.

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

   As for what IFTAS does, they run a blocklist that isn't available to the public without logging in with a Mastodon account and possibly creating an account with them (IFTAS Connect/CARIAD/FediCheck). And also publish a DNI list that is almost a year old. The only public way to view updated parts of the blocklists is to read their news blogs about them. And on that note, they've recently put boymoder.biz on the DNI list and removed cum.salon from it.

   https://connect.iftas.org/news/connect/fedicheck-cariad-update/

   They also run two Mastodon instances mastodon.iftas.org and sandbox.mastodon.iftas.org (latter is used as a sandbox for janny training) and made a pointless assessment with a survey about trust and safety.

   All in all it looks to me like the typical non-profit scheme that gets donations/support from governments with zero reasons to exist, ie. a grift.