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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 13h

Who controls your archives?

Decentralized web (DWeb) storage offers communities new ways to preserve and verify mobile media.

Explore what’s possible, and what trade-offs to weigh, in our new white paper: smplu.link/TMD0z

In partnership with @hypha.coop, with support from @ffdweb.org 💜

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · 3d

💡Huge project partner milestone!

@openarchive.bsky.social and @hypha.coop just shipped a privacy-first, decentralized storage backend for the Save mobile app.

Communities can now preserve and verify mobile media without relying on centralized platforms.

www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

New White Paper - Implementing Secure, Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile Media

Learn about the research, development, and deployment processes we implemented with Hypha Co-Operative to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

www.open-archive.org

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 7d

✨ We refreshed our secure archiving app Save—now safer, smoother & more powerful

Updates:
➡️ Securely archive photos & videos straight from your phone
➡️ Use passcode lock, screen blur & stronger verification
➡️ Coming soon: censorship-resistant DWeb backend. DM to beta test!
www.open-archive.org/save

Save by OpenArchive is always free and always open source

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 10d

🌍✨ Special thanks to Team CommUNITY @teamcommunity.bsky.social for organizing this amazing event and connecting digital rights defenders worldwide!

#GlobalGathering2025

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 10d

✨Together with Hypha Worker Co-operative (@hypha.coop), we built the first secure, p2p decentralized storage backend for our Save app.

🌍 Privacy-first archiving means safer, resilient storage for at-risk media.

Read the white paper + join beta testing: www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph... 🙏

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 13d

🌈 Thank you, #GlobalGathering2025! We’re inspired after 3 days with leaders, journalists, technologists & funders—learning together, helping set up the Save app & sharing our new #DWeb research on preserving at-risk media. Events like this show why secure, ethical & accessible tools are essential 💜

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 20d

We are SO proud of this collaboration with @hypha.coop to create secure and equitable decentralized archiving tools to protect everyone and their media.

Read our new white paper to learn about how we did it and what it can do!

With support from @ffdweb.org 🙏
www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

OpenArchive

Explore the research, development, and deployment processes that we and Hypha Co-Operative used to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

www.open-archive.org

OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Publication alert! Learn about the first decentralized, p2p mobile backend we built w/ @hypha.coop in our white paper.

Why?

🌍Distributed Storage.
🤝Community-Run: by us, for us.
🧱Redundancy, by design.
🫶🏼More autonomy & integrity.
🙏w/ the support of @ffdweb.org
www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

OpenArchive

Explore the research, development, and deployment processes that we and Hypha Co-Operative used to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

www.open-archive.org

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 24d

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · 26d

This week we’ll be sharing only good news.

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 27d

New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free universal childcare.
The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Aug 18

We LOVE CYD so much - especially because it helps us reclaim power over our archives 🫶.

And it’s SUPER easy to use!

Cyd @cyd.social · Aug 16

Interested in what Cyd is, how it works, and other Lockdown Systems projects? We gave a talk at HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH! Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw... @micahflee.com @redshiftzero.bsky.social @yaelwrites.com

Claw Back Your Data With Cyd (HOPE 2025)

YouTube video by Micah Lee

www.youtube.com

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hey @beehiiv.com - we have a problem - we filed a ticket with you nearly 3 weeks ago and you have yet to handle it. It's a super easy fix and any other company would've resolved it within 2 minutes.

GL with this level of disregard and disrespect - we're heading back to mailchimp!

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Mar 2

If you’re trying out Save for the first time, check out our set up guide - refreshed for 2025:

www.open-archive.org/pdf/how_to_u...

We’re hard at work refining and updating the ux and features so keep an eye out for our big update in early May!

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Mar 2

We do.

Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · Feb 24

[email protected] announced that tomorrow they're shutting down their Mobile Justice app that allowed users to record police interactions to the cloud. The only similar app we're aware of is Cop Watch Video Recorder for iPhone.

What else exists for this purpose, particularly on Android phones?

Information on Shutdown of the Mobile Justice App | American Civil Liberties Union

www.aclu.org

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Mar 2

"If we allow our tech competitors all over the world to reverse engineer/erode the high monopoly rents extracted by these American tech firms, we do something very effective in this trade war because the only thing keeping the SMP500 afloat are these tech monopolists." @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Feb 26

"The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” says author Cory Doctorow, about Elon Musk’s shakeup of the federal government.

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · Feb 24

On Mastodon, someone pointed us towards @openarchive.bsky.social's Save "an intuitive, privacy-first decentralized mobile archiving app that helps people preserve their media for the long term."

OpenArchive

OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence.

www.open-archive.org

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David Aragort @aragort.com · Feb 19

Despite the challenging times faced by our community, I'm thrilled to attend #RightsCon2025 with OpenArchive. I'm eager to meet with old and new friends, explore collaborative opportunities, and support one another in these difficult moments

Join us to learn about our work and say hi if you see us!

OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 19

OpenArchive is heading to #RightsCon2025, 24-27 February 2025 🧑‍💻🔐

+ Dialogue session: Working with Mobile Media Archiving Tools
+ Weds 26 Feb, 9-10am
+ Room 102, Taipei International Convention Center
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr25mhb8

+ Say hello at our booth!
+ Thurs, 27 Feb, 9am-1pm, location TBD

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 19

OpenArchive is heading to #RightsCon2025, 24-27 February 2025 🧑‍💻🔐

+ Dialogue session: Working with Mobile Media Archiving Tools
+ Weds 26 Feb, 9-10am
+ Room 102, Taipei International Convention Center
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr25mhb8

+ Say hello at our booth!
+ Thurs, 27 Feb, 9am-1pm, location TBD

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 19

OpenArchive is heading to #RightsCon2025, 24-27 February 2025 🧑‍💻🔐

+ Dialogue session: Working with Mobile Media Archiving Tools
+ Weds 26 Feb, 9-10am
+ Room 102, Taipei International Convention Center
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr25mhb8

+ Say hello at our booth!
+ Thurs, 27 Feb, 9am-1pm, location TBD

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 16

As mentioned in the @eff.org’s post, OpenArchive is affected by these illegal freezes. What is not mentioned is that it is likely existential for us if other funders aren’t able to offer emergency support.

Proud of my community for working fast to mitigate the damage while congress just rolls over.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jan 30

We want to draw attention to one of the new Administration's Executive Orders that directly impacts the freedom tools that people around the world depend on to fight censorship, and protect their security and anonymity.

Executive Order to the State Department Sideswipes Freedom Tools, Threatens Censorship Resistance, Privacy, and Anonymity of Millions

In the first weeks of the Trump Administration, we have witnessed a spate of sweeping, confusing, and likely unconstitutional executive orders, including some that have already had devastating human c...

www.eff.org

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 16

Yes! If you make it usable, they will come.

I created OpenArchive bc I & communities I did ethno research w/ while at UCB’s ischool wanted an easy way to securely preserve mobile media.

Secure / dweb tools weren’t usable in 2011 - and aren’t much better now - I founded OpenArchive to change that.

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 16

💯 it’s just odd he left bsky for twitter after creating it bc it was too similar to twitter lol

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 16

Even more egregious is that it’s happening at the same time most other funders are cutting off support.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Feb 16

As mentioned in the @eff.org’s post, OpenArchive is affected by these illegal freezes. What is not mentioned is that it is likely existential for us if other funders aren’t able to offer emergency support.

Proud of my community for working fast to mitigate the damage while congress just rolls over.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jan 30

We want to draw attention to one of the new Administration's Executive Orders that directly impacts the freedom tools that people around the world depend on to fight censorship, and protect their security and anonymity.

Executive Order to the State Department Sideswipes Freedom Tools, Threatens Censorship Resistance, Privacy, and Anonymity of Millions

In the first weeks of the Trump Administration, we have witnessed a spate of sweeping, confusing, and likely unconstitutional executive orders, including some that have already had devastating human c...

www.eff.org

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