When I first joined Farcaster, a permissionless and sufficiently decentralized social network, I saw the need for a Farchiver service which downloads and preserves your social history.

I continue to operate Farchiver, the easiest way to save your Farcaster activity (a paid service)

Farchiver will never be de-platformed, because I built it on open infrastructure and dependencies at every level. However, the cost of dealing with spam is rising faster than the economies of scale that can be achieved with more customers.

I firmly believe that people want to own their social history. It is now FREE[^1] to get a Nano Farchive[^2].

Announcing Nano Farchiver

Nano Farchiver is an MIT licensed FOSS project to generate a Farchive on your own machine.

• What do you get? a folder of Markdown files on your computer, that links user profiles, casts and replies to each other.

• How hard is it to run? clone a git repo; run some bun scripts

> bun doit

• How long does it take? on my smol account, the ...