Stop Reinventing in Isolation: Bringing Open Source to Trust & Safety Infrastructure

As protocols and platforms grow, so do the demands of policy enforcement, human review workflows, and cross-platform incident response. Trust and safety tools form this critical layer of Internet infrastructure, yet most solutions remain closed, proprietary, and reinvented in isolation. Further, they’re typically out of reach for smaller and decentralized platforms.

Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) is building a different future: one where these trust and safety tools are open, transparent, community-governed, and usable by platforms and organizations of all sizes. In this talk, you’ll get a refresher on what “trust and safety” means; hear how ROOST is succeeding with a non-profit and open source approach; learn about the newly-released Osprey rules engine and investigation tool—already in production across platforms like Bluesky and Discord; see a demo of Osprey in action; and finally, learn how to adopt and contribute to Osprey and other open source trust and safety tools with ROOST.