Technology

Keep in mind that your descendents probably won't care about a huge majority of what you leave them. Photos annotated with a date, time, people in them, and an explanation, maybe, but generally my generation hasn't given a shit about the tonnes of books, music, photos, furniture, knick knacks, and antiquities bequeathed to us. It would be bizarre if our kids didn't maintain that tradition.

My mother passed away before the internet evolved into something a middle aged woman would enjoy using.

I went searching for anything I could find, and I did manage to come across an ancient website for alumni of her highschool where her name and email were listed. Sort of blew my mind, she'd obviously come across the website and emailed the admin to add her contact info.

This would've been 8 or 9 years before Facebook blew up. Man, she would've loved Facebook and Farmville. She'd probably be doing Wordle every day and be a Rachel Maddow wine mom if she'd survived.

How much I wish she'd had a significant online presence so I could look her up and sort of connect with her again in some way.

Thanks to capitalism, you don’t own most of that “digital legacy” and do not have the right to bequeath or transfer ownership for the vast majority of it.

Who wants to inherit my lemmy comments?

I’m just trying to figure out a way to keep my 20+ tb of Linux isos curated and still accessible.

This is something that I've really been thinking about lately as I get older and my kids start to grow up. I've got 60TB+ of digital data, including all my families history of photos and videos digitized which are backed up to 3 separate cloud services, onenote filled with information, password managers filled with logins and details, etc, along with my Steam/Xbox/Playstation/Epic/GOG/etc accounts with 1000+ games on them.

I'm tempted to make a website/app to try and tie it all together in an easy way tbh.

My digital legacy is going in the dumpster, unless somebody figures out how to break encryption that I've never shared the password for.

Probate can figure out the rest.

I'm lucky

I have no children, and never will

My family and I aren't close

My fiancée and I met through the erotic content that I create, and all my friends are well aware of it

My image has already been shared far and wide (without my permission), so that ship has already sailed

I'll be dead, and nobody will be worried about my digital legacy whatsoever

I know, however, that I'm very much the exception and not the rule

I plan on being dead then, so do what you want with my digital wake.

A long time ago, I had the idea for a startup to keep digital material, including accounts, passwords, old documents, etc. in a digital vault that would be released to the next-of-kin when someone dies. It would also convert documents to newer formats so your old unpublished WordPerfect novel could be opened and read by the grandkids (should they choose).

Problem is, nobody would (or should) trust a startup with that material. This is stuff that should be around for many decades and most startups go out of business.

Books, games, music should be willable, but they are not. That we allowed ourselves to reach this particular spot is just sad.

In 2017, I helped develop key recommendations for planning your digital legacy. These include:

• creating an inventory of accounts and assets, recording usernames and login information, and if possible, downloading personal content for local storage
• specifying preferences in writing, noting wishes about what content should be preserved, deleted, or shared – and with whom
• using password managers to securely store and share access to information and legacy preferences
• designating a digital executor who has legal authority to carry out your digital legacy wishes and preferences, ideally with legal advice
• using legacy features on available platforms, such as Facebook’s Legacy Contact, Google’s Inactive Account Manager, or Apple’s Digital Legacy.

"You can’t remember their favourite song, so you try to login to their Spotify account. Then you realise the account login is inaccessible, and with it has gone their personal history of Spotify playlists, annual “wrapped” analytics, and liked songs curated to reflect their taste, memories, and identity"

Instead you could track your listening habits on ListenBrainz. In doing so you safeguard yourself from Spotify ever restricting access to your data, data which they consider theirs. For ListenBrainz of course you must be willing to share your data freely, but it will be for the benefit of all, whilst if you don't it will only be used for the benefit of Spotify corporates. You'll help facilitate a healthy online music ecosystem, because people can built apps on top of the ListenBrainz dataset. You can get recommendations from algorithms of your choice instead of having to rely on Spotifys algorithms.

Not working for Listenbrainz in any way, just an enthousiastic user that plugs it when he sees fit :)

My plan is: baleted