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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 · 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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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · 28d

The team focuses on peer-to-peer data management, proof of location, and verifiable geo-computation, and has shipped a Web3 Geospatial Dashboard that blends STAC metadata with IPFS and @Filecoin for multi-path retrieval.

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · 28d

Our world runs on maps.

As dependence on location data grows, so does the need for resilient, verifiable infrastructure.

The Decentralized Geospatial Collaborative is building open source tools that make geospatial data easier to store, share, and trust.

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · 28d

Read our Q&A with TaylorOshan to see how decentralized infrastructure is powering open science.

ffdweb.org/blog/decentr...

Decentralizing Location Data: A Q&A with Taylor Oshan, Project Lead at EASIER Data Initiative | FFDW

In this Q&A, Taylor Oshan, Project Lead at EASIER Data Initiative, shares more about how decentralized infrastructure is unlocking new possibilities for open science.

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Sep 5

Read @dpla.bsky.social's final blog on the project: dp.la/news/safegua...

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Sep 5

With support from Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, the Digital Public Library of America ( @dpla.bsky.social ) ran a pilot to store selected partner content on the Filecoin network, building resilience and keeping communities in control of their data.

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Sep 5

Preserving digital cultural heritage is urgent.

Operational cuts, natural disasters, and technical disruptions put collections at risk.

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

The future of the web belongs to creators who understand decentralized technology.

Check out the course knowledge base. Its a treasure trove of information on the decentralized web!

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Dweb For Creators Knowledge Base - Gray Area

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Aug 28

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Aug 28

Community-Controlled Archives are moving collections onto decentralized storage.

Join this upcoming TechSoup Public Good App House demo to see the exact governance and migration steps.

events.techsoup.org/events/detai...

Cultural Memory Lab Showcase: Permanent, Censorship-Resistant, Community-Controlled Archives | TechSoup Events

Virtual Event - Preserve and protect your community’s history. Join the Cultural Memory Lab Showcase to see how archivists use decentralized storage for permanent, censorship-resistant, community-cont...

events.techsoup.org

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Jun 23

Early 🐦 passes for @grayarea.org Festival 2025 are out now!

grayareafestival.io

Gray Area Festival 2025

CORPOREAL PRACTICE & PERFECTION in CONTEMPORARY TECHNOCULTURE

grayareafestival.io

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Marnie Webb @marniewebb.bsky.social · May 9

So great to have the team @techsoup.bsky.social be a part of this work.

Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · May 9

Empowering community archives through decentralized technology. 💪

The Cultural Memory Lab just announced its inaugural cohort.

Discover how three standout projects will explore how decentralized tools can preserve cultural memory ↓

acceleratingmakers.publicgoodapphouse.org/blog/_blog-p...

Accelerating Makers - Introducing the Cultural Memory Lab Cohort: Empowering Community Archives Through Decentralized Technology

Accelerating Makers

acceleratingmakers.publicgoodapphouse.org

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · May 9

Empowering community archives through decentralized technology. 💪

The Cultural Memory Lab just announced its inaugural cohort.

Discover how three standout projects will explore how decentralized tools can preserve cultural memory ↓

acceleratingmakers.publicgoodapphouse.org/blog/_blog-p...

Accelerating Makers - Introducing the Cultural Memory Lab Cohort: Empowering Community Archives Through Decentralized Technology

Accelerating Makers

acceleratingmakers.publicgoodapphouse.org

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Mar 12

The internet we have isn't the internet we wanted.

In National Review, Luke Hogg from Foundation for American Innovation explains how to decentralize control of the web ↓

www.nationalreview.com/magazine/202...

Building a Better Internet | National Review

How to decentralize control of the web.

www.nationalreview.com

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OpenArchive @openarchive.bsky.social · Jan 25

they follow the “enshittification” pattern: “first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.”

Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Jan 23

Cory Doctorow’s piece explores how large centralized platform’s control over the configuration settings have robbed us of autonomy, while making the internet less than it could and should be.

🔗: ffdweb.org/digest/twidd...

FFDW DWeb Digest: Twiddler: Configurability for Me, But Not For Thee.

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Sabo @sabothecat.bsky.social · Feb 11

This is the reason why I took interest in blockchain at all. I have been hugely disappointed by the crypto sphere, but I still that some of this tech can be used for a better web. Some saw in mid 2010s that big data was a massive threat to democracy, and they have been proven right by now.

Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Jan 9

In her essay, @naomibrockwell.bsky.social puts in very real terms why everyone should be thinking about how decentralized data, which we can control ourselves, is a necessary element for protecting our own privacy.

ffdweb.org/digest/why-w...

FFDW DWeb Digest: Why We Need To Fight For Our Privacy

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Mar 11

But there’s hope for these irreplaceable cultural artifacts. Our project partner Prelinger Archives is preserving what would otherwise be lost.

Read more from @footage.bsky.social in @archive.org 's Vanishing Culture series : blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/v...

Vanishing Culture: No Film Left Unscanned | Internet Archive Blogs

blog.archive.org

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Mar 11

Millions of memories are silently disappearing.

What we're losing:

– Home movies - our collective history

– "Useful cinema" - like educational & industrial films

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · Mar 4

At #SXSW in Austin on March 8, 2025, let’s work together to restore some balance and agency that is driven by the value of human generated content.

Thank you to our sponsor, the John S. and James L. @knightfoundation.org for making this event possible.

Secure your spot today: loom.ly/Zg06A6c

Creative Commons’ Open House for an Open Future

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Feb 27

March 4th (online) from 4-6 PM PT

March 9th (in-person, Bay Area) from 1-4 PM PT

Save your spot today: events.techsoup.org/events/detai...

Introducing Bay Area GLAM Organizations to the Decentralized Web and Storage | TechSoup Events

Virtual Event - Join us to explore how decentralized storage can empower your organization and transform how cultural data is preserved, shared, and owned. Together, let’s build a future where cultura...

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Feb 27

✅ Protect against centralized risks and data loss

✅ Increase security with tamper-proof records

✅ Empower your organization with more control over digital artifacts

✅ Reduce storage costs with scalable, decentralized alternatives

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Feb 27

Join us for a two-part series to explore how decentralized storage can help you:

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · Feb 11

New project updates from the @spritelyinst.bsky.social team!

Hoot 0.6.0 is live! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, as well as a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain.

Learn more about the latest DWeb developments:

spritely.institute/news/guile-h...

GNU's programming and extension language — GNU Guile

Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system.

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Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net · Feb 10

ProofMode by Guardian Project is an application for authenticating and verifying multimedia content captured on smartphones. Thanks for the support @ffdweb.org ! www.centerforadigitalfuture.org/blog/60kqfdg...

Guardian Project: ProofMode — Center for a Digital Future

ProofMode by Guardian Project is an application for authenticating and verifying multimedia content captured on smartphones.

www.centerforadigitalfuture.org

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