As I announced earlier today on the mailing list, I'll be stepping down as the lead of the ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce. There'll be some process through which a new lead for the taskforce will be selected, and I encourage people with a background in trust & safety to apply, since it's mostly about facilitating and coordinating work and ensuring the outcomes remain on track. If you're interested in potentially leading the taskforce, see this issue on github. The parting gift that I've left the taskforce is a grant for the next years' worth of work thanks to NLNet's Open Social Fund.

## Context We had low turnout on the meeting on 5th August 2026, as we _really_ need input from other taskforce members on what our next 12 months will look like, we will be having an interim meeting. This will be added to the W3C calendar shortly. ### When August 19th, 11am EST / 5pm CEST ## Agenda: 1. Introductions, if necessary 2. Brief Funding Update (5mins) 3. Scoping the next year: * Proposals * Interaction Controls — replies collection usage, per-object reply controls, interaction controls, and consent respecting quote posts * Suggested Milestone Items * Issue Triage — lets look to see any other "obvious" candidates for work items (e.g., suspended, or some of the initial report items **NOTE:** This isn't a meeting to discuss implementation details, instead it's planning, as I need to get back to NLNet with a grant MoU **soon**. I will be moved the meeting along if we get too in the weeds. **Outcomes:** Each item should have a minuted vote for inclusion/exclusion, voting is -1 to +1, with -0/+0 as negative but no objection/positive no objection. We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. ## Administrivia: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any Taskforce Work Items must be members of the Social Web CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join * To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ 2. Reminder of Code of Conduct 3. Scribe volunteer(s)? If we can't find a scribe, I'll need to record the meeting and use AI/ML to prepare the meeting notes, or the meeting cannot proceed. You can find information on how to join the meeting in the SWICG calendar

## Agenda: 1. Introductions, if necessary 2. Outstanding PRs * #116 - Content Labeling * #142 - Reorganisation * #122 - as:sensitve spec 3. Funding update - NLNet Grant 4. Planning for the next 12 Months: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/discussions/144 We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. ## Administrivia: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any Taskforce Work Items must be members of the Social Web CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join * To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ 2. Reminder of Code of Conduct 3. Scribe volunteer(s)? If we can't find a scribe, I'll need to record the meeting and use AI/ML to prepare the meeting notes, or the meeting cannot proceed. ## More Info You can find information on how to join the meeting in the SWICG calendar

## Agenda: 1. Introductions, if necessary 2. Task force reorganization and reorientation - Iterations, Milestones, and Workstreams (preparing for publication of deliverables): https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/137 3. Grant Funding / NLNet: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/102 4. Taskforce co-lead selection / information: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/135 5. Review all "needs review" issues We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. You can find information on how to join the meeting in the SWICG calendar ## Administrivia: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any Taskforce Work Items must be members of the Social Web CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join * To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ 2. Reminder of Code of Conduct 3. Scribe volunteer(s)? If we can't find a scribe, I'll need to record the meeting and use AI/ML to prepare the meeting notes, or the meeting cannot proceed.

**NOTE: This is a catch up meeting at a different time than normal, the meetings may move to 5pm CEST in the future depending on attendance from US people.** ## Administrivia: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any Taskforce Work Items must be members of the Social Web CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join * To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ 2. Reminder of Code of Conduct 3. Scribe volunteer(s)? If we can't find a scribe, I'll need to record the meeting and use AI/ML to prepare the meeting notes, or the meeting cannot proceed. ## Agenda: 1. Introductions, if necessary 2. Pull Request #122 - Content Warning Processing Model 3. Pull Request #116 - Content Labelling 4. Issue #24 - Addressing for Moderators (#132 was opened but we need to discuss) 5. Time permitting: PR #121 & #129 (these will probably be bumped to July's meeting) We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. You can find information on how to join the meeting in the SWICG calendar ## Background on the mid-month meeting This meeting was originally 2026-06-03 @ 4pm CEST, however, Emelia was unavailable due to her chronic illness. The new meeting to catch up is scheduled for 2026-06-17 @ 6pm CEST / Noon EDT / 9am PDT.

Please propose agenda items! Agenda: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any Taskforce Work Items must be members of the Social Web CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join * To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ 2. Reminder of Code of Conduct 3. Introductions, if necessary 4. TBD We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. You can find information on how to join the meeting in the SWICG calendar GitHub issue for the meeting: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/128

Agenda: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any Taskforce Work Items must be members of the Social Web CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join * To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ 2. Reminder of Code of Conduct 3. Introductions, if necessary 4. Discussion of additional moderation features, relating to this thread: https://hachyderm.io/@benpate@mastodon.social/116292079719687939 We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. You can find information on how to join the meeting in the SWICG calendar This post was copied from: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/125

<p>Hi all, I'm Emelia, the co-lead of the <a href="https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/" rel="nofollow ugc">ActivityPub Trust &amp; Safety Taskforce</a> operating under the Social Web CG. We're starting this forum to try to encourage a bit more asynchronous participation in the taskforce and provide a fediverse-native touch point for people interested in trust and safety.</p> <p>This forum <em><strong>does not</strong></em> replace the <a href="https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub issues</a> for the taskforce, where we have specific discussion. We will still have our monthly meetings for the taskforce that happen via a video call with minutes taken and published in the repository.</p> <p>However, we do want to help people get involved in the taskforce and better understand the taskforces' current areas of work. We've a pretty huge backlog of issues, and there's currently three main focus areas of work, these are:</p> <ul> <li>The <strong><a href="https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/32" rel="nofollow ugc">Initial Report</a></strong> that aims to provide context for understanding trust and safety at a high-level and what features you may need to implement in fediverse software to foster good trust and safety and moderation.</li> <li>Work on <strong><a href="https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/38" rel="nofollow ugc">Improving Moderation Activities</a></strong>, this covers standardising Flag activities, ensuring that there is enough information in the activities to enable moderation teams, and ensuring the Flag activities reach the correct moderation team directly. At the same time, we're working on inter-server communication between moderation teams, without disclosing individual team members.</li> <li>Finally, we have <strong><a href="https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/41" rel="nofollow ugc">Content warnings, labels, and annotations</a></strong>: this is where we've had most work right now. We've previously reached a consensus that we <strong>won't</strong> be adding a new property for content warnings, but we will document how that is currently supported (hint: it's not just <code>summary</code> being present on an object, but rather <code>summary + as:sensitive</code> being present). We're also working on content labelling, which allows usage of well-known vocabularies as to enable better filtering that is not just keyword matching, eventually the goal is to support annotations, where a third-party can publish content labels on Objects and Actors, and interested parties can subscribe — this removes the burden from the author to label their posts (which for some author's is currently a self-censorship requirement)</li> </ul> <p>Once we've made significant progress in these identified areas of work, we may take on additional areas of work.</p> <p>The taskforce meets virtually via a video call once a month, and you can <a href="https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/29a5bd4f-bb6e-4830-bbf7-7ba290e89afa/" rel="nofollow ugc">find the calendar</a> on the W3C website. It's free to participate in W3C community groups and taskforces, though you will want a W3C account with the CLA and IPR agreement in place, which can be done at:</p> <ul> <li>the <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join" rel="nofollow ugc">community group</a></li> <li>the <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/" rel="nofollow ugc">W3C Agreements</a></li> </ul> <p>I'll be monitoring this forum and providing answers / guidance where I can, however, as running the taskforce is unpaid work, I'm unfortunately not able to provide extensive amounts of time, so I may not always respond quickly.</p>