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    New Report: Death Is Not an Edge Case

    On recommendations for improved digital legacy features for Flickr members.

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    ‘Threading Ephemeral’: Oreoluwa’s closing reflections on the Fellowship

    As Oreoluwa's Fellowship project draws to a close, they share their concluding artistic output and critical reflections on image-making

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    The State of Social Media Archiving

    Read our market research on how social media platforms allow their users to download their stuff.

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    2026: Simplifying Our Strategy

    We're making adjustments to our programming and team in the coming months to weather the current storm affecting nonprofits across the US and more broadly.

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    Looking back over 2025

    Here's a handy compendium of all the stuff we've done this year. Wheee!

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    Oreoluwa’s Midpoint Reflections

    Flickr Foundation's Winter Research Fellow shares their reflections on the Fellowship so far and the next phases of their creative, archival research

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    New Podcast: How we made Flickr's community so nice

    George talks with Rabble of Revolution Social to discuss her work designing Flickr and the model for an alternative internet with care, community and preservation at its core.

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    Flickr Foundation at Mozilla Festival

    Tori and George headed to Barcelona to talk digital legacy in the age of social media and what should be done about it

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    4,400 new glass negatives added to Flickr Commons

    Please welcome the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Library to Flickr Commons! Our first Hungarian member.

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    Meet Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivist

    "Entire categories of imagery or creators can disappear simply because no one thought they mattered in the moment. That’s the tension between saving and hoarding."

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    Welcome Rachel Frick to Our Board!

    Digital libraries and cultural heritage leader, Rachel L. Frick, joins our Board of Directors.

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    Data Lifeboats at the XVI International Conference of the Image

    Our second stop on the European conference circuit was Paris, for the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image where George and Tori shared the release of Data Lifeboat and the importance of citizen-driven collecting.

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    International Conference of Cyber-Humanities Recap

    Tori shares her reflections on a recent conference in Florence, where she detailed our progress on the Data Lifeboat alpha alongside the value of collecting from social media for heritage practitioners.

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    An Interview with Tosin Adeosun, Founder & Curator of African Style Archive

    Meet Tosin Adeosun as she details her experiences as a digital curator, managing care and loss in user-generated archives and shares some of her favorites from the Flickr Commons collection.

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    Welcome, Anna!

    Anna will be joining us on an AHRC PhD placement from University College London to support on Data Lifeboat research.

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