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Flickr Foundation uploaded 1,000 top-viewed cultural photos to Filecoin to ensure long-term preservation and public access. Filecoin and IPFS enable decentralized storage, keeping archives safe even if original hosts go offline permanently. Fresh news comes from the world of online photography. The Flickr Foundation has just completed the process of uploading 1,000 of the most popular photos from the Flickr Commons collection to the decentralized storage network Filecoin. The collection labeled “Flickr Commons 1K” houses historical shots from NASA, the Library of Congress, and the U.S. National Archives. With this step, the non-profit organization ensures that images that are often referenced by researchers, journalists, and cultural activists are not lost in time or scattered on fragile servers. .@flickrfdn uploaded the most-viewed images from Flickr Commons to Filecoin. These photographs, from NASA, the Library of Congress, and others are part of a global effort to keep cultural photography accessible across generations. pic.twitter.com/TSYchlgmjp — Filecoin (@Filecoin) June 25, 2025 Securing Photo Archives with IPFS and Filecoin Technology Not only that, this initiative utilizes the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) protocol so that copies of the photos are spread across many nodes. This means that if one server goes down, the archives are still maintained in other locations without any delay in access. Add Filecoin as an incentive layer, and the public gets a guarantee that photos of the Apollo landings or street portraits from the 1900s will still be available for our great-grandchildren to download in the future. Why Switch to Decentralized Storage? On the other hand, traditional storage often stumbles on space limitations and the risk of data center failure. Imagine a family archive stored on a single hard drive; once it hits the floor, all the memories are gone. The same concept applies to digital repositories of history. That’s why the…

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