Building safety tools no one can take away with ROOST’s Camille François

Safety infrastructure built as open-source commons—not proprietary vendor tools—lets any builder, large or small, protect users without depending on a company's goodwill.

• Open-source safety commons: ROOST, launched February 2025 as a nonprofit, makes trust-and-safety tools free and open source so builders don't duct-tape proprietary vendor stacks together.
• Smyte collapse drove the thesis: Twitter's 2018 acquisition and shutdown of safety vendor Smyte cut off Discord and others overnight; Discord later open-sourced its rebuilt rules engine as ROOST's Osprey tool.

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