Skyrock France

You. You and everyone else. Millions of you, starting in the early 2000s, started creating a Skyblog, posting texts, photos, and comments... You helped create one of the world's first social networks. You were the pioneers of a mode of communication and collective exchange that would change our societies. You invented shared intimacy. An entire creative, artistic, sound, written, and visual generation took its first steps on Skyblogs! Skyblogs became the 17th largest site in the world in 2007. The Skyblog generation is you. The Skyblog revolution is you.

And behind this explosion of experiences and networked imaginations, there is Skyrock's fantastic digital team that will invent everything. Rankings, moderation, advertising events, cyber attacks, the challenge of the very large number, the code to be constantly evolved, the response times of the machines, all the way to storage on the servers... Yes, in the 2000s, it was one of the first social networks in the world, everything was to be conceived for the first time!

This is the golden age of the web, the golden age of blogs. Then will come the other networks, new, talented services that cater to the public's tastes. With global resources, they will be the most popular.

We experienced these exceptional, powerful moments together. A magical freedom of expression that no longer exists. Here, T Libre! Like on Skyrock, this state of mind, this emancipation, this strength, it's us, it's you.

Today, Skyblogs are entering history. To comply with personal data legislation, to preserve the platform and Skyblogs in their candid and eruptive presentation, we must freeze them and remove them from public access. This sociological treasure will be anonymized and sent to the national archives* so that tomorrow, scholars and researchers can gain insight into the new generation of the early 21st century with previously unimaginable granularity.

Thank you, my friends, for everything we have done together, this immense network of exchange that has changed us, that has brought us into a new era. You were the vanguard of all subsequent generations.

For us at Skyrock, we are immensely proud of this trajectory, of this rise where each one was a star connected to all the others. But we are not nostalgic. The best is always ahead. Today, we have created Skred , the first global secure messaging service of European origin with 17 million users worldwide. A new user every 15 seconds in Dubai, Beijing, Limoges, Jakarta, Khartoum... And Skred is ranked among the seven best messaging services in the world by the reference site "The Verge". So why a messaging service? In the 20th century, freedom of expression meant talking to everyone; in the 21st, it means choosing who listens. With a peer-to-peer system, no one can listen to your conversations on Skred . Our mission for freedom continues, growing.