Cyd

We just released OnionShare 2.7! This version includes some new features, a security fix, and several other small changes lockdown.systems/onionshare-2...

Lockdown Systems now has a new fiscal sponsor! The Lucy Parsons Labs will now help us to collect your generous donations! 🐢💜 Read more about the announcement here: lockdown.systems/new-version-... Thank you!

Are you ready to finally quit X? 🙅 The Cyd app can help you! Just in time for the spooky Halloween season, it's time to bury your X account with Cyd's new Tombstone feature 🪦💀 Learn more about this new feature and how it works: lockdown.systems/new-version-...

It's time to update Cyd! 🛠️✨ X has continued to enshittify in the past months, to a point where it broke how Cyd was interacting with it. But we fixed it today! Thanks to the incredible work of our development team! 💪 More on this: lockdown.systems/new-version-...

TODAY! We have a Lockdown Systems booth at the Global Gathering this weekend! Come chat with our collective member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social about our many projects, and pick up some stickers! ✨ When: Saturday, September 5th, 13:00-15:00 Where: GG venue, Booth 5

TODAY! If you're at the Global Gathering, come see Lockdown Systems! ⭕️🐢 Our member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social is there to talk about @cyd.social! Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance When: Friday, September 4th, 15:30-17:30 Where: Spyware Village, Booth 57 We have stickers!

For any #globalgathering2026 attendees I'll be there running two circles! one about Cyd (as mentioned below!) and one about User Research and Design in Digital Human Rights. I'll also be handing out cool stickers and ready to chat about anything OSS + design + Human Rights Also beach time!

We will also have a Lockdown Systems Booth at the Global Gathering this weekend! Come chat with us and pick up some stickers! ✨ When: Saturday, September 5th, 13:00-15:00 Where: GG venue, Booth 5 2/2

If you're at the 2026 Global Gathering this week, come meet Lockdown Systems! ⭕️🐢 Our member @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social will be there to talk about @cyd.social! Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance When: Friday, September 4th, 15:30-17:30 Where: Spyware Village, Booth 57 1/2

People persuade themselves that they’re innoculated against cognitive bias by being aware of the potential for it. And that can help a bit. But more often it’s like an optical illusion: You don’t stop experiencing it just because you understand how it works.

Very pleased to find out that the tool I used to delete most of my tweets now has Bluesky functionality. The premium version is very much worth the money.

Good news! You can now pay for a Cyd Premium subscription monthly instead of yearly! 📆🐦️ You will still save money if you purchase a yearly subscription, but you now have the option to try Cyd Premium for a few months first. lockdown.systems/cyd-premiis-...

I cannot emphasize enough how much we should all get the fuck off of X. This includes every politician and progressive group.

In July 2025 we started the ICE Detention Map project to show ICE's reported detention centers. This data came from public records shared by ICE. But since April 9th 2026, ICE stopped sharing this data, entirely. Read more about what happened here: lockdown.systems/fragile-dhs-...

If you're enjoying Cyd, you might also be interested in following Cyd's organization, Lockdown Systems! 🐢 Lockdown Systems just joined Bluesky today. On that account, we will share news about Cyd too, but also about all our numerous other projects! You can follow us at @lockdownsystems.bsky.social

We are pleased to be joining Bluesky today with this new account! 🦋 We are Lockdown Systems, a worker-owned collective building freedom and privacy technologies to inform the public, fight surveillance, and empower people to take back control of their own data. 1/3

this application is a must have for any creator or professional on atproto its a worthwhile subscription and the team behind this project exudes deserves every penny they get

Cyd 1.1.22 is released! This fixes a few bugs (including a big one that was preventing people from logging into new X accounts), and adds a bunch of code quality improvements. See more at cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1...

Cyd for Bluesky is here! I’ve been working on this for months, and also using it on my own account for months. Here are my settings

In partnership with Funding the Commons we are excited to launch a new crowdfunding initiative benefitting 10 internet freedom projects at internetfreedom.torproject.org. Thank you to our matchfunders @cakewallet.com, @octant.bsky.social, Logos & Zcash Community blog.torproject.org/fund-interne...

Welp. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Yeah. I'm using Cyd:

I downloaded an app that is, even as I speak, going back through my X account and deleting all my old tweets. More than 75,000 of them, apparently. It has to be done but it still makes me sad. I still miss old Twitter. It was a big part of my life for a long time & nothing has replaced it.

We're getting ready to release Facebook support for @cyd.social! Want to beta test it? Read this and fill out the form by this weekend if you're interested nextcloud.lockdown.systems/apps/forms/s...

Yes! I used @cyd.social! I had already downloaded a local copy of my data, so when I used the free account to delete all my tweets it was VERY fast. And I had a LOT of tweets from years of use.

We're about to release @cyd.social for iPhone and Android, making it easy to backup and delete your Bluesky data, except for what you want to keep! Want to beta test? Read this and fill out the form before March 16 if you're interested nextcloud.lockdown.systems/apps/forms/s...

Three days ago, we finally got around to archiving and purging our Xitter account. Start to finish, the process took just under two and a half days. That was 18 years worth of data, consisting of 12,000+ tweets, retweets, likes, and DMs. Thanks to @cyd.social for making the task so easy.

Guess what? I’ve been slowly but surely working on a @cyd.social mobile app with support for basically making your Bluesky account ephemeral. It’s not ready yet, but as I test I’m going to start deleting my old posts, reposts, likes, and chats (chat messages in my account, anyway)

Also shout out to @cyd.social for making it easy and able to do so locally on my machine rather than depend on a cloud service.

We used @cyd.social to delete around 100k tweets this week. The platform makes it easy to migrate your old content here, too.

Also as part of my "decluttering my life and purging what I don't need anymore" weekend, I ran this yesterday and finally deleted all my old tweets on the bad site. Felt good!