OpenArchive
@openarchive.bsky.social
https://www.open-archive.org/
Protecting our histories.
We are a nonprofit initiative that co-creates tools and resources to easily safeguard media.
Securely archive, verify, and encrypt your mobile media with our mobile app Save.
Protecting our histories.
We are a nonprofit initiative that co-creates tools and resources to easily safeguard media.
Securely archive, verify, and encrypt your mobile media with our mobile app Save.
✨ 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.
With secure, responsive mobile preservation, we help communities protect their media & stories — safely, easily, and for the long term.
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
✨ 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.
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
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
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🎃 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
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
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
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
✨ 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
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
🩵 Join us in safeguarding stories from the margins: explore, share & support our work at www.open-archive.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
✨ 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
🩵 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
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
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌍 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
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
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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
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
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 🩵
✨ 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 🩵
October 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
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 🩵
✨ 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 🩵
October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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 🩵
✨ 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 🩵
October 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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 🩵
✨ 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 🩵
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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...
@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.
www.open-archive.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
💡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.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
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
October 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
✨ 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
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... 🙏
🌍 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... 🙏
September 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
✨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... 🙏
🌍 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 💜
September 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🌈 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...
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.
www.open-archive.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
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...
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.
www.open-archive.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨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...
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...
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
This week we’ll be sharing only good news.
New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free universal childcare.
The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.
The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced free childcare for all families, regardless of income, a move estimated to save families $12,000 per child each year.
September 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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!
And it’s SUPER easy to use!
Interested in what Cyd is, how it works, and other Lockdown Systems projects? We gave a talk at HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH! Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw... @micahflee.com @redshiftzero.bsky.social @yaelwrites.com
Claw Back Your Data With Cyd (HOPE 2025)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
www.youtube.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We LOVE CYD so much - especially because it helps us reclaim power over our archives 🫶.
And it’s SUPER easy to use!
And it’s SUPER easy to use!
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"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
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
August 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"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
– 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!
GL with this level of disregard and disrespect - we're heading back to mailchimp!
July 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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!
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!
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!
March 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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!
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.
.@aclu.org announced that tomorrow they're shutting down their Mobile Justice app that allowed users to record police interactions to the cloud. The only similar app we're aware of is Cop Watch Video Recorder for iPhone.
What else exists for this purpose, particularly on Android phones?
What else exists for this purpose, particularly on Android phones?
Information on Shutdown of the Mobile Justice App | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
March 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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
"The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” says author Cory Doctorow, about Elon Musk’s shakeup of the federal government.
March 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"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
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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."
OpenArchive
OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence.
www.open-archive.org
February 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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."
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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!
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
+ 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
February 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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!
Join us to learn about our work and say hi if you see us!
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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
+ 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
February 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
+ 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