REPHRAIN are pleased to announce the first Impact Booster Award project, awarded to Ignacio Castro to facilitate work on building a fedi-observatory!

This fedi-observatory will be a pump priming project to begin initial work on designing a single-point of access for the broader research community as well as policy makers for studying harms and moderation in the fediverse.

The fedi-observatory’s long-term goal will be to provide access to data and tools to support moderation efforts in the fediverse and allow study by researchers and policy makers, filling in the gap left by the forgone access to the Twitter API.

We’ll be posting more about this project as this work develops – please keep an eye on our social media accounts for more news about this resource!