You could mirror your blog posts to a decentralized network like Secure Scuttlebutt, assuming you have a few friends who would be willing and able to follow your feed and thus mirror your content. Or it might be simpler to just email out a copy of each blog post to a little mailing list of people who care about you. Let them know that you'd like your legacy to remain public and they can probably coordinate among themselves to set up a public archive when the time comes.
Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
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#12You could put them in the Bitcoin blockchain. That’ll last as long as people are greedy, so probably a long time. Whether people will know they are there in the future I don’t know.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#13Posthaven, Archive.org, or Github Pages.
Why not something like wordpress.com? I know this disqualifies the “self-host” part, but is it better in this case than self-hosting your blog?
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#141. You can't make anything last forever. Just a little while longer if you set things up correctly. 2. Is your blog really that important, meaningful or valuable that it needs to be preserved after your death? 3. Apart from technical solutions, writing things that people will read and share is the best way to preserve what you've created.
1. How about posting it in a hosted solution like wordpress.com? Is it better in this case than self-hosting your blog?
2. No, it is not (yet, maybe). But I’d like my writings to be accessible as long as possible after my death.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#15You could put them in the Bitcoin blockchain. That’ll last as long as people are greedy, so probably a long time. Whether people will know they are there in the future I don’t know.
Generally speaking, the purpose of something written is to be read. Putting text in the bitcoin blockchain is as good as writing it down on something durable and burying it deep underground. It might last a long time, but it's pretty pointless.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#16https://www.pcworld.com/article/2933478/m-disc-optical-media...
Any thoughts on these? If HN doesn't disapprove, you could buy these/burn your blog on them, and send them around the world. The simpler the format, the better.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#17It is a very complicated problem. One idea I've thought about is to hide a server in the woods. You should be able to connect it with a pre-paid gsm sim card and for power have a large battery... The server should be hibernating and consuming minimal amount of energy while not serving requests.
A second option is to piggyback on other services, such as github, wikipedia (some allow personal pages in your own namespace) and various message boards. You could even mail your blog posts to Swedish government services as they would be obliged to archive it. People would "access" your blog posts by mailing the same government services and requesting all emails sent by saifulwebid on June 12, 2019 for example. Of course this idea doesn't scale and if enough people tried it they would change the rules.
Usenet posts should last a very long time too. But even those eventually vanishes and posts from the 80's are nowhere to be found.