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.
@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: