OpenArchive

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!

"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

OpenArchive OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence.

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.