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what happens to this site when I die? - typos

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Wesley and Winnie Lim think about [how websites die](https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/) and [website graveyards](https://winnielim.org/journal/on-writing-to-exist-and-website-graveyards/). What becomes of them after we're gone? The same day I encountered those articles, Kristien stumbled upon a "_what happens to my digital identity when you die?_" article in a digital newspaper. It occurred to me that I should give this the attention it deserves, even though having to deal with it is kind of morbid.
Some social media platforms, such as Facebook, provide the option to nominate a friend as a "legacy contact" who can pin posts and even put up [memorialisation requests](https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/651319028315841). By default, your account simply lingers, but it's very nice to know that there's a system that makes it possible to put out a message to all digital acquaintances. Twitter and Google also provide forms to request a takedown of an account. There's even a paper called [are the dead taking over Facebook?](https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1811/1811.03416.pdf) that predict a near future in which accounts of deceased outnumber the ones with living owners...
Some social media platforms, such as Facebook, provide the option to nominate a friend as a "legacy contact" who can pin posts and even put up [memorialisation requests](https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/651319028315841). By default, your account simply lingers, but it's very nice to know that there's a system that makes it possible to put out a message to all digital acquaintances. Twitter and Google also provide forms to request a takedown of an account. There's even a paper called [are the dead taking over Facebook?](https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1811/1811.03416.pdf) that predicts a near future in which accounts of deceased outnumber the ones with living owners...
But what if you do _not_ want to simply have your digital presence removed? What if I wanted my blog to continue its own life after mine? Wesley tries tackling this problem by paying for the domain name a decade in advance:
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Someone at Mastodon mentioned their own server:
> When I die my websites go down when the server in my living room is unplugged. I don't feel any responsibility. Nothing elae on the internet lasts and if I don't have a local copy of something when it disappears then I guess I didn't really need it.
> When I die my websites go down when the server in my living room is unplugged. I don't feel any responsibility. Nothing on the internet lasts and if I don't have a local copy of something when it disappears then I guess I didn't really need it.
That's one way of looking at it: a shrug. Someone else seems to have taken more careful measurements:
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As Brain Baking is mostly a tool to structure _my own_ thoughts, and the website and its contents gets (re)read primarily by myself, perhaps it indeed isn't needed to keep in the air. Perhaps its expiry date is also my own expiry date---or the other way around.
In any case, I think it would be nice to create a "memorialisation request" functionality, like Facebook has, for this site. Perhaps a stupid script that auto-commits a "Hi, if you're reading this, I'm no longer there" message that can be appended to the will. It doesn't need to be put up forever.
In any case, I think it would be nice to create a "memorialisation request" functionality, like Facebook has, for this site. Perhaps a stupid script that auto-commits a "Hi, if you're reading this, I'm no longer there" message that can be appended to the will. It doesn't need to last forever.
Nothing lasts forever.