We tell each other to self host in order to escape the big corps. But when we die, all the self hosted stuff is going to get wiped and history will only remember the archives that got stored by the big corps. And you know how history is written by the winners. Do we need a way to automatically hand over our sites to archive.org or similar? Or send them disc images? Nobody expects to get run over by a car but some of us will, today. I made no plans for this.
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My wife has got my keepass and I got hers. It's not enough. We need better solutions.
@eladhen @kensanata Even within our families, those of us who are parents today will bequeath a digital legacy to our children. Digital photos, digital home movies, license keys for video games they loved as children. There are no good resources on this.
One of the points of archive.org was to prevent a digital dark age where information would be lost to time. Obviously this is a larger problem where data/media get orphaned as storage, formats, operating systems, etc, trends change to incompatible ones. Eventually even keeping good old hardware will be irrelevant if we can't interface with TVs, monitors and sound systems anymore.
@eladhen @kensanata I like the idea of some kind or foundation to keep these archives. Certainly not a big corp; no need to have anyone profit from one's death or post death.
I'm for the internet archive. One should also think about them now or in your will:
https://archive.org/donate/