Flickr Foundation is a key partner in FFDW's work to preserve publicly significant digital collections. George Oates, executive director of the @flickrfdn.bsky.social, joins Rabble for a conversation about community governance and the future of shared cultural memory.

DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live. With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor. 8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts. Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2

The Architecture of Resilience | FFDW

Issue 2 of the DWeb Digest - Architecture of Resilience

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💡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.

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🚨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.

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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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Preserving digital cultural heritage is urgent. Operational cuts, natural disasters, and technical disruptions put collections at risk.

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! dweb.grayarea.org

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...

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

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

Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web@ffdweb.org · last yr.

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...

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...

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.

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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 · 2y ago

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...

Millions of memories are silently disappearing. What we're losing: – Home movies - our collective history – "Useful cinema" - like educational & industrial films

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

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

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...

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.

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The Cultural Memory Lab is offering $2,000 to $5,000 in funding for 3-5 community-driven archiving projects with support from @techsoup.bsky.social , @grayarea.org, and FFDW. Are you one? Apply. Know one? Share this post with them! Applications close Sunday! grayarea.org/initiative/c...

Cultural Memory Lab with TechSoup and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

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In 2024, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) made significant strides in advancing the decentralized web, preserving humanity's most critical information, and supporting the adoption of decentralized technologies. Read the full report↓ ffdweb.org/blog/ffdw-20...

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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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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Don’t miss your chance to join the Cultural Memory Lab! A 4-month incubator program with up to $5K in funding + support from @grayarea.org, @techsoup.bsky.social, and FFDW Applications close February 2! grayarea.org/initiative/c...

Cultural Memory Lab with TechSoup and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

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This piece from @kurtopsahl.bsky.social reminds us how code is expression and needs to be free if we want to realize the dream of the decentralized web. ffdweb.org/digest/recog...

FFDW DWeb Digest: Recognizing Code as Speech is Vital

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It’s great to return to this great essay by @mmasnick.bsky.social Decentralization isn’t just a technological concept, but a framework that we can use to re-envision how society works today and in the future. ffdweb.org/digest/decen...

FFDW DWeb Digest: Decentralization In All the Things

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✨Exciting news: Cultural Memory Lab is here! An incubator empowering archives, libraries, museums, & more to preserve collective memory using decentralized tech. A collaboration between @grayarea.org, @techsoup.bsky.social , & FFDW The details …↓ grayarea.org/initiative/c...

Over the past six months, TRANSFER, with support from FFDW and others, has been designing an artist-owned decentralized archive and cooperative value exchange network. They’ve hit some exciting milestones along the way! Check it out ↓

Kelani Nichole@kelani.bsky.social · 2y ago

What I’ve been up to the past 6 months: taking TRANSFER in a new direction, looking back on a decade of work that was ahead of its time, and building an open infrastructure that offers an alternative to the hellscape of the Contemporary Art Market: opencollective.com/transfer-dat...

SF❤️ 🌉 Featuring 400 newly scanned archival films, watch this year’s LOST LANDSCAPES from @footage.bsky.social and team! Tonight Grab your ticket. See you there! www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...

Tickets | LOST LANDSCAPES 02024 Streets, People and Play: The Drama of Daily Life | City Box Office

Check This Out: Get tickets and show information for LOST LANDSCAPES 02024 Streets, People and Play: The Drama of Daily Life - City Box Office

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Tonight and tomorrow: Join us at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco for the 19th edition of Rick Prelinger (@footage.bsky.social)'s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco! longnow.org/ideas/lost-l...

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Lost Landscapes 02024 Streets, People and Play: The Drama of Daily Life

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