<p>The Bad Space project was born from a need to effectively identify instances that house bad actors and are poorly moderated, which puts marginalized communities at risk.
<p>The Bad Space is a collaboration of instances committed to actively moderating against racism, sexism, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, casteism, or religion.</p>
<p>These instances have permitted The Bad Space to read their respective blocklists to create a composite directory of sites tagged for the behavior above that can be searched and, through a public API, can be integrated into external services.</p>
The Bad Space is meant to be a resource for anyone looking to improve the quality of their online experience by creating a tool that catalogs sources for harassment and abuse. There are several options for how it can be used.
<h3>Search</h3>
To see if a site is listed in the database, use the
<ahref="/">search feature</a>
to search for that URL. If it is in the database, information for that instance will be returned and associated instances if applicable.
<h3>CSV Exports</h3>
For a list of the current locations being tracked, click on one of the links below to download a dynamically generated CSV file that can be consumed as a blocklist. More formats will be added over time.
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<ahref="/exports/mastodon">For Mastodon</a>
<h3>API</h3>
The Bad Space has a public api that can be used to search the database programatically and return results in the JSON format. The API can be accsess at<br/>
<code>https://thebad.space/api/v1/search</code>
by posting a JSON object with the following format:
<code>{"url":"search.url"}</code><br/>
Data from API request will be returned in the follow format:<br/>