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
Short term thinking is a major blind spot, an ideological pit of the zeitgeist. The culture just isn't geared to prioritizing archiving or long term interoperability. This is a shame posterity (if there are any) will not thank us for.
It's good to try to save personal data with some nice .par2 files. On CD-R, supposedly these will last a good while. But archive curation even for a family is a real chore. A movement to prioritize this, I'd support!
