What is Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW)?
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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 @flickrfdn, joins @rabble for a conversation about community governance and the future of shared cultural memory.

Watch the episode ↓

revolution.social/episodes/our-m…

DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live.

With @pbkauf as guest editor.

8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts.

Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2

Featuring:
— Starling Lab on decentralized verification
— @internetarchive & Prelinger Archives (@footage) on preserving film and web history
— @GrayAreaorg on building networks for liberation

— @flickrfdn on Data Lifeboats for digital heritage
— @transfergallery on artist-led data cooperatives
— @LighthouseWeb3 on perpetual storage
— @witnessorg on community infrastructure in the Amazon

Some snapshots from our workshop at @GrayAreaorg Festival!

It was a full house — thank you to everyone who joined us and built unique worlds in Fuser, and to the festival for having us.

'Prosthetic Pixels: Worldbuilding with AI, Style & Self' was led by our founders, @dal. Participants teamed up to imagine speculative futures, and we were truly amazed by the results — each group created distinctive and inspiring worlds.

If you’re interested in bringing a Fuser workshop to your community, reach out and lets plan one!

Just published an overview of tools & apps using the Location Protocol!

Includes our collab with @guardianproject for Proofmode Android & an MCP agent for querying location attestations inside IDEs using natural language.

Blog: easierdata.org/updates/2025/2… #Geospatial #Web3

💡Huge project partner milestone!

OpenArchive and Hypha 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.

With support from FFDW, this work pushes the DWeb forward so crucial evidence and culture are harder to censor or erase.

open-archive.org/news/oa-hypha-…

This artist hacked his own body to invent a new form of music

Learn more about 𝐎𝐧𝐲𝐱 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢!

4 days of performances, talks, workshops, and an exhibition interrogating corporeal practice and perfection in contemporary technoculture

Sep 11–14
grayareafestival.io

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

ffdweb.org/blog/decentral…

Our world runs on maps.

As dependence on location data grows, so does the need for resilient, verifiable infrastructure.

The @easierdataorg Decentralized Geospatial Collaborative is building open source tools that make geospatial data easier to store, share, and trust.

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.

Tomorrow!

Preserving digital cultural heritage is urgent.

Operational cuts, natural disasters, and technical disruptions put collections at risk.

With support from Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, the Digital Public Library of America ran a pilot to store selected partner content on the Filecoin network, building resilience and keeping communities in control of their data.

Read DPLA’s final blog on the project: dp.la/news/safeguard…

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

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.

events.techsoup.org/events/details…

FFDW project partner @easierdataorg recently released the first Location Protocol spec with the goal of enhancing interoperability, transparency, and trust is geospatial data across decentralized and traditional systems.

Learn more ⬇️

easierdata.org/updates/2025/2…