Our Research & Strategy Director @bndy.org recently joined a #SplinterCon session on distributed content delivery in the age of shutdowns, alongside @ouisync.bsky.social (eQualitie) & BitPart (@throneless.tech). Eliot presented our app Save & discussed preserving media in censored contexts.

✨ OpenArchive co-creates holistic, intuitive & privacy-first archiving tools + resources to preserve our histories. With secure, responsive mobile preservation, we help communities protect their media & stories — safely, easily, and for the long term.

🎃 This #Halloween, don’t let your memories become a ghost story. 👻 Archive them securely with our Save app with encryption stronger than any spell. 🔒✨ No tricks, just treats — safely preserved and verifiable data! 🔗 linktr.ee/openarchive

✨ Save is an easy-to-use mobile app designed to help you securely verify, share, and archive your mobile media. It's free, open-source, and available for iOS and Android. Download the app, read our How to Use Save Guide, and watch our video tutorials → www.open-archive.org/save

✨ OpenArchive builds reliable, open-source & decentralized archives to protect history and the people documenting it. 🩵 Join us in safeguarding stories from the margins: explore, share & support our work at www.open-archive.org

🌍 In a world where media can vanish overnight, OpenArchive helps you keep it safe. Our privacy-first, decentralized tools help people preserve and share their stories — creating many copies so history endures. ✨ Help us protect our stories & histories for the long term: www.open-archive.org/donate

Incredibly proud of this collaboration to better protect us & our histories! It’s a dream come true to put nearly a decade’s worth of community co-research into action & share our harm reduction tools with the world! I live for de-enshittifying our little corner of the web. #MoveSlowAndFixThings

DM us if you’d like to beta test the new storage backend via Save or join our upcoming ux feedback and training sessions!

Our new secure decentralized p2p storage offers new ways to preserve and verify mobile media. ✨ The first of its kind ✨ ✊🏼💾 Learn how to reclaim control of your archives in our new white paper www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph... In partnership with @hypha.coop, with support from @ffdweb.org 🩵

💡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...

✨ 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

✨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... 🙏

🌈 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 💜

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...

🚨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...

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

This week we’ll be sharing only good news.

We LOVE CYD so much - especially because it helps us reclaim power over our archives 🫶. And it’s SUPER easy to use!

"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

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!

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!

We do.

"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

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."

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 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

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

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.

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...

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.

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

Ok folks. Time for me to pull my law rank and correct some shit. When a judge issues a civil contempt order, she does not hand it to the prosecutor or AG and say “enforce this if you feel like it.” The judge hands it directly to a law enforcement officer, who has no discretion on whether to serve it

BREAKING: Judge Amir Ali, one of the final Biden appointees confirmed, just temporarily restored what looks like a wide swath of foreign aid funding that had been blocked. Full order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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.

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.”

OpenAI’s #Sora and #Ai tech like it represent a step change in generative video. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I highlight key risks and fundamental inequitable gaps in access to detection tools. But ... there is time to address this and other threats www.techpolicy.press/openais-sora...

Musicians, music fans and @archive.org fans alike can still show their support and sign on today: www.savethearchive.com

Big record labels claim to be helping musicians by destroying the @archive.org ! We organized a letter with over 500 musicians who are speaking out about how this couldn't be further from the truth:

We interrupt your regularly scheduled scrolling to remind you that you can support @open_archive’s mission to safeguard our shared histories by making a direct donation✨ Whether it's $10, $100, or $1000, every amount counts! #GivingTuesday2024 Visit: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=... #GivingTuesday

8/ The next stop is for the bill to go to the Senate. If HR 9495 becomes law, we’ll be entering a dangerous era where nonprofits can be shut down with little evidence and no accountability. Today it’s pro-Palestinian groups—tomorrow it could be any organization critical of government policy.

6/ Proponents of HR 9495 claim it addresses gaps in current laws, but experts point out that existing legislation already prevents nonprofits from supporting terrorism, with due process in place. This new law bypasses those safeguards, giving the government unchecked power.

📩 A new @signal.bsky.social feature may have an outsized impact on your ability to speak securely: call links. Thanks to new, unique meeting URLs, you no longer have to join a group to start a call. Learn more in our digital security newsletter (and subscribe):

Okay, so you're using Signal for encrypted messaging. Cool. It's a good time to use usernames instead of a phone number to talk to people. That and lots more about how to make the most of Signal's security features in here: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

I made a starter pack for public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields. LMK who else I should add, please. #PublicInterestTech #PublicInterestTechnology #DataforSocialGood go.bsky.app/He8HTaC

In this week's digital security advice column, we address a common concern with password managers: If I use a password manager, am I 'putting all my eggs in one basket'?

🌈We’re thrilled to join the #GlobalGathering this year! ✨ 👋 Let’s catch up! 🌊 Venue: FIARTIL - Feira de Artesanato do Estoril, Av. Amaral 📅 Date: 28 September 2024 ⏱️ Time: 15:30-17:30 CEST 🗃️ Booth: no. 11

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