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When do language models moderate content well, and where do they struggle? Bring a set of rules you know well, and we’ll test them across open models in our session with Musubi! All T&S folks welcome, no ML background needed! Next Tuesday, Oct 27. Sign up here:

CoPE-B-S1 is the next step. It's open-weight under Apache 2.0, so you can self-host it and keep your users' content on your own infrastructure, and it uses Jev's JSON spec, so it's a drop-in swap. Model card and weights: huggingface.co/zentropi-ai/... Go build with it!

The newest model in the ROOST Model Community!

we had a great time hacking on Matrix this week at #MatrixConf. The @matrix.org folks are doing some great work and use Coop, Osprey, and HMA to do it! ft @cassidyjames.com and @julietshen.online (sometimes but not always represented by a rooster on a wall)

Impromptu sabacc game at the Matrix Conference! I didn’t bring shift tokens, so we ended up using @roost.tools swag. 🤣 #MatrixConf #sabacc

Matrix is working on Raven, which is a new open source project to connect your Matrix deployment to Coop and Osprey, the open source trust and safety tools from ROOST! 🙌

Jim is sharing an update about T&S for Matrix. @julietshen.online and I will cameo later in the talk to share a bit about @roost.tools projects being used to keep people safe on Matrix.

stream the talks here! @mackesque.bsky.social and @roost.tools are up in 10 minutes

at the talk on open protocols by @samvie.eurosky.social at #MatrixConf! ATmosphere, @eurosky.social, @blackskyweb.xyz mentioned alongside Mastodon and Matrix. Super important points on the need to connect protocols for digital sovereignty

Starting today!! #MatrixConf 20-23 October #Malmo. Here's @amandine.bsky.social getting ready to welcome volunteers and attendees. See what's up next: conference.matrix.org

A wild @julietshen.online appeared! We’re both in town to chat about open source T&S tooling. ✨

I am in Malmö for @matrix.org Conf with @cassidyjames.com! give me a shout if you're around and want to talk decentralized trust and safety and @roost.tools !

Good morning, Malmö! I’m excited to hang out with and learn from people building messaging and social experiences on the open, decentralized #Matrix protocol. 😊 And if you have any questions about @roost.tools, our open source trust & safety tools Coop & Osprey, or T&S in general, I’d love to chat!

surprise! @roost.tools will be guest speaking in @mackesque.bsky.social's session about how @matrix.org uses Coop, Osprey, and HMA to protect servers and people! Matrix has also published Matrix specific plugins for HMA so anyone building on matrix can use these tools!

Caught up with @annebdh.bsky.social, COO of @roost.tools, for this episode of @redmonk.com's MonkCast. I am super interested in the way they're approaching safety and trust, which is an issue that is only becoming more important owing to AI. redmonk.com/videos/anne-... youtube.com/shorts/I56pV...

Hear @annebdh.bsky.social, COO of @roost.tools (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), chat with @kateholterhoff.com about the importance of #oss tools in trust and safety, especially in the age of AI. redmonk.com/videos/anne-...

Our updated roadmap is open for discussion! This roadmap update was rooted largely in feedback from current adopters, feature requests from potential adopters, and issues that the community has raised. We look forward to your input! 🐣 github.com/orgs/roostor...

Aaaand Osprey 1.2 is out. 😊 It’s a minor release, but has quite a bit of work that’s gone into it. Hopefully future releases will actually be smaller and more frequent as we settle into a release cadence.

Very excited to speak with @roost.tools about our work on pretraining safety! Check out their discord server to join tomorrow at 12:30 ET! discord.com/events/12675...

tomorrow's @roost.tools Model Community office hours will feature @stellaathena.bsky.social! Hear from her on how she and her team at @eleutherai.bsky.social, w/ UK AISI & Oxford, filtered biothreat content out of pretraining data and got open models that held up through fine-tuning attacks!

If nothing else, skip to the 44 minute mark for a mention of a cool guy 👀 jk you should listen to the whole thing! It’s a great interview and story of the work @roost.tools is doing!

With the imminent minor release, Osprey got the nice docs site treatment like Coop and the @roost.tools community docs. :) docs.roost.tools/osprey/latest/

And we're part of @roost.tools model community! As part of the launch, we released a big ol' guide to choosing and routing open safety models roost.tools/blog/a-guide...

been cooking up new models with partners for a few months @roost.tools. Come test models with us at the end of the month!

More @roost.tools docs site updates! We’re now serving project docs from the shiny new docs.roost.tools domain. Idk what to do with the bare domain yet, so it currently redirects to roost.tools, but projects get a nice URL like: docs.roost.tools/coop/latest More to come soon. 👀

Who else is using @roost.tools’ Osprey for moderation on ATProto? Would there be interest in some sort of shared repo for UDFs and Plugins?

The @roost.tools community site now shows contributors from the GitHub API! It doesn’t reflect every contribution to the community (e.g. folks who are active in working groups or chat but not on GitHub), but it’s a start to try to visualize who the ROOST community actually is. community.roost.tools

The @roost.tools Coop docs are looking preeeeeetty nice now, huh? 👀 roostorg.github.io/coop/latest/

Wooo, first Coop release I've directly been a part of — hoping you'll see more of that soon! I've been grinding on reducing tech debt and figuring out how to make the code more maintainable long term

We’re still refining our processes, but I think we went too long between releases! 😅 For a relatively minor update, there’s so much good stuff coming in Coop 1.1.0. And a ton from adopters using Coop in production, or first-time contributors. It’s exciting to see this community grow and develop. 😊

Most tooling for fighting fraud and abuse was built for 2010s social media. The abuse evolved. The tools mostly didn't. @julietshen.online at Marketplace Risk NYC on why open source and open weight models help: you run them yourself, so sensitive data never leaves your systems. github.com/roostorg

Yes, please! GitHub stars may be largely a vanity metric, but it does also help us spread the word about our open source moderation tools. :) Plus, it’s fun to watch this chart go up!

Hey friends, could you do me a favour and star github.com/roostorg/coop if you like the Roost Coop project?

Two of my repeated (but favorite!) conversations at TrustCon were about how other trust and safety organizations can open source some of their work, and how to _actually_ consume open source software. You hit the download button and then..? Now written up, and with slightly better artisanal visuals

We’ll be there, too! Find @cassidyjames.com or @julietshen.online to chat about ROOST, open source, and trust & safety. :)

I’ll be there! We have lots we want to chat about around the @roost.tools open source community as well as Osprey itself. You can even come lurk if you just want to see how the sausage gets made… 👀️

We’re holding our Osprey Working Group call in just under an hour and a half (1730 UTC)! This public meeting brings adopters, contributors, and curious folks together to discuss and plan the Osprey open source project that helps power T&S at Bluesky, Matrix, Discord, & more. Come join us!