Networking and conversation at #ijf26 are expanding across the city. Check the full off-programme schedule available on our website: lnkd.in/erDaEmxx

What drives the public to donate to and subscribe to media outlets in this historical moment? Ivan Kolpakov and Galina Timchenko share the experience of @meduza.io

#ijf26

The 20th International Journalism Festival has kicked off. Come and join us in Perugia!
#Ijf26

You can read our full blog here: www.open-archive.org/news/splinte...

At the end of the day, this event brought us hope.

For each talk about censorship and shutdowns, there were twice as many presentations for tools and technologies to counter these threats. Surveillance and censorship technologies are evolving, but so are we.

Adopting new technologies is hard: SplinterCon showcased a wide variety of tools. One thing connected them all: adoption and retention are hard.

That is why we work with others to design technology that is intuitive, secure, and follows the Human Rights Centered Design Methodology

Surveillance and censorship technologies are evolving, but so are we.

From TPSU, Russia's black boxes, to China's Great Firewall, new censorship systems are constantly developed, deployed and sold to provide authoritarian governments with tools to censor and monitor citizens.

Big Tech services can become a liability, and not only because of the platforms themselves. They can also be co-opted or blocked by state actors.

Sometimes, Facebook or Google are the only options for activists. In this case, those companies can become targets for government actors.

Last year we joined technologists, researchers, and policymakers at SplinterCon Paris. This was an opportunity to present our Save app, but also to take stock of how surveillance and censorship are progressing around the world.

Here are our takeaways 👇
www.open-archive.org/news/splinte...

One of our founding board members, @cooperq.com is on 404 Media sharing ways you can detect whether your phone's safety is compromised. Learn more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEFP...

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

OpenArchive Save, by OpenArchive, is a free, open-source mobile application to preserve and amplify media while protecting your privacy. - OpenArchive

Hi @khimaros.com, thanks for reaching out.

You can find our source code here: github.com/OpenArchive

You can also reach out to us on community@open-archive.org.

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 🩵

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.

💡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...

Save by OpenArchive is always free and always open source

✨ 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

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

#GlobalGathering2025

✨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 💜

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.

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.

🚨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...

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

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!