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I was in the "archive/hoard everything" camp for several years and lately I've taken a very nihilistic approach at life. I die tomorrow, I don’t think you real
by sureIy 2y ago
I was in the "archive/hoard everything" camp for several years and lately I've taken a very nihilistic approach at life.
I die tomorrow, I don’t think you really MUST save my stuff, especially anything digital. If I haven't already shared it with you, it's not yours to have.
Anything important like bank accounts can already be accessed by family with a death certificate; everything else, doesn't matter.
What happens to my online accounts after I die? None of my business, I'm dead.
- zdragnar 2y agoThere's a certain argument that accounts can haunt friends and family after you've passed- things like seeing you still there in their friends / contacts / feed / whatever. I think it's worth talking about. There are far bigger problems facing many societies, but it doesn't hurt to think about this one too.
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- precommunicator 2y agoWell, same here, but I still wouldn't want to loose data until the point of my death. So I'm still hoarding and archiving everything, but it's all encrypted, nobody else than me has the master password, so at the point of my death, it's all gone, and I don't care