Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you?

https://www.familysearch.org/memories/

It's a service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (of which I'm a member), which considers preserving family history to be a core tenet. To the point of storing family history records in the Granite Mountain Vault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Salt_Lake_Co...)

tenet:

a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy.

tenant:

a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.

Then you need an organization that’s going to care about your writings and photos.

Maybe this is your children and your children are going to then do whatever it takes to maintain your writings and the family photo album just like generations have done.

The only way for things to outlive you is for you to have something that other people want to continue to work on or consume.

That’s literally the only way

If your iCloud account (or whatever) goes abandoned, then a corporation who doesn’t care at all about you is just going to delete your account and all of your information unless you continue to have a commercial transaction with them.

Maintaining a commercial transaction means someone maintains a bank ledger that can support that.

Maintaining a bank ledger that you can support that after you die means that you have some person who is maintaining that managing it maintaining the relationship with the bank, etc…

The writings of Rumi are going to continue to promulgate throughout the Earth, long after Rumi’s death because other people care what they say, and it was encoded in a form and distributed in a way that a lot of people decided to take it

If you cannot create that kind of momentum, then there’s nothing you can do technologically that maintain that

Do something worth doing and it Might be maintained

I’ll give you my personal example of this: I, along with Dave West, Bryce Johnson, Ben Hedges totally re-created 97.7 KAFA the radio station for the United States Air Force Academy from 2006-2008. Prior to me taking over as music Director and later general manager, we had no presence on the Internet. We had no coverage in the Colorado Springs area. We had no formatting. We had nothing structural, we had nothing institutional. Our funding was basically zero and there was no ability for us to maintain or grow.

Over the ensuing 2 1/2 years of work I led a frequency change, widespread marketing, antenna improvement, permanent funding and structured programming. 97.7 KAFA became a permanent and powerful part of the propaganda arm of the US Air Force. That continues and is now maintained and has been maintained for 20 years after I left. It still has the same format. It still uses the same software (NexGen), they have the same segments, they do exactly what the structure is that I put in place.

I haven’t had any input into that since 2008 and it’s thriving: https://www.usafa.edu/radio/

That’s how you create a legacy, hard work, unique determination, and bringing people into a system such that they will maintain it irrespective of your input or not.

If you don’t do that, then nothing you do is going to last