Watch the episode ↓

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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.

— @TRANSFER on artist-led data cooperatives
— Lighthouse on perpetual storage
— @witnessorg.bsky.social on community infrastructure in the Amazon

Featuring:
— Starling Lab on decentralized verification
— @archive.org & Prelinger Archives (@footage.bsky.social) on preserving film and web history
— @grayarea.org on building networks for liberation
— @flickrfdn.bsky.social on Data Lifeboats for digital heritage

The Architecture of Resilience | FFDW Issue 2 of the DWeb Digest - Architecture of Resilience

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

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...

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
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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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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...

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.

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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.

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 ↓

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Building a Better Internet | National Review How to decentralize control of the web.

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...

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.”

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...

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

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...

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...

✅ 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

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...

Guardian Project: ProofMode — Center for a Digital Future ProofMode by Guardian Project is an application for authenticating and verifying multimedia content captured on smartphones.

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...