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 "Save page now" on https://archive.org/web/

However, they automatically index pretty much everything that's truly public. Meaning no archiving of ANY Facebook posts etc., because of the login wall. So no, the corps will not remember you for the rest of history. The Internet Archive will.

@kensanata That said, I hope they have offsite backups of all their petabytes, because if The Big One hits SF, who knows what's going to happen.

@krozruch @raucao @kensanata They should open up torrents so that people can seed the data forever, this also stops them from erasing the past.

@siraben @krozruch @raucao Or you could create a federal mandate: make them part of the Library of Congress and make it a mandate that they save a copy of everything, including copyright exemption. They can stop publishing contested material but they will keep a copy. And people can at least walk on and make their own copies.

@kensanata @krozruch @raucao I don't know what the best compromise is for archiving the internet. Is more always better? Do we really need to remember every version of every single meme in the future? Maybe. Who knows if they'll be useful? But then again, maybe not.

@krozruch @raucao @kensanata Exactly. But do we want to have the power to arbitrarily delete content? Who decides what content is kept? Hard questions.

@siraben @krozruch @kensanata They're not that hard, if you accept that anything that is public can be archived by anyone anyway. Learn more about the Internet Archive, and if their FAQ and content aren't enough, ask them questions. This has all been talked about for decades.