Comment on ISO Selfhost
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 weeks ago
Not that “alternatively young” but the difference is slight here.
Yeah I self host my Lemmy because why not? As well I self host my matrix with bridges to all main chat closed ecosystems because why not?
At least my descendants will own all my comments and posts.
And I also host (not at home, but on vps) my email because why not.
Do you really need any other reason to?
Also, Lemmy rocks, this community is one of the best and more active.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If you self-host, how much of that content disappear when your descendants shut down your instance?
I used to host a bunch of academic data, but when I stopped working, there was no institutional support. Turned off the server and it all went away (still Wayback Machine archives). I mean, I don’t really care whether my social media presence outlives me, the experience just made me aware that personal pet projects are pretty sensitive to that person.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 weeks ago
Yeah, that is something I keep thinking. I need a way to keep all that working somehow.
Maybe a foundation, to keep personal data for future research scope, or general knowledge. Its sad that all that will go to waste.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wonder if there’s an opportunity there. Some way to archive one’s self-hosted, public-facing content, either as a static VM or, like archive.org, just the static content of URLs. I’m imagining a service one’s heirs could contract to crawl the site, save it all somewhere, and take care of permanent maintenance, renewing domains, etc. Ought to be cheap enough to maintain the content; presumably low traffic in most cases. Set up an endowment-type fee structure to pay for perpetual domain reg.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 weeks ago
Yes, something like that. A non profit foundation would be mandatory.