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
what about
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
http://dat.land/
http://ipfs.io/
(and others I'm forgetting) ?
@grainloom I would need simple and understandable instructions on how to achieve it. And I have the feeling that if nobody ever requested a copy and then my server dies, it would disappear from the net, too?
@kensanata with ssb you don't have to actually "request" it, eg. if you follow someone then (by default) you also get the posts from the people they follow (this can be configured with the "hop distance" option)
and that content can still propagate, even if the person loses their account
heck, ssb doesn't even need the web, it could work with flash drives and carrier pigeons
of course that limits what you can do with it, but it opens the door for a lot of interesting new things