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.
@kensanata I've made plans with friends & family to - in case of my untimely demise - continue running my domains, and serve a static snapshot of contents. All the tools to do this are prepared, all passwords in a KeePassXC database, etc. I've written up instructions about what needs to be shut down and how, have a small amount of money set aside for a few years of hosting costs, so my content should be good for a decade or two after I'm gone. We should all be doing something similar.
@algernon @kensanata I'd be very interested in a brief write-up of this process, if you have spare bandwidth. Continuity is something I've been considering, but I don't have a good idea where to start.
@nocko @kensanata I plan to put the skeleton of it up somewhere, likely in the form of a blog post. Sometime in the next few months, whenever time allows. (I've been meaning to do this for a while, now all the more reason to do so.)
I've written a simple app to facilitate that https://github.com/mayel/LiveManSwitch