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Furthermore there is no internet company I would trust to keep my data for 100 years. (Because what internet things don't shut down after like 10 years OR require a recurring payment that might fail). That is a wild claim! The only remotely possible way might be blockchain (but that'll be stupidly expensive) or more simply, a normal public blog that gets indexed by the internet archive.

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True, could have worded it better. I still think how I can have the data preserved for more than 100 years, I haven't yet found a way. I did find a few methods but I felt that they would put the privacy at risk. One was using blockchain (which as you told is stupidly expensive) and the other one was using distributed databases like https://gun.eco/ with a few nodes hosted around the world (kinda like nostr).

Even if the platform manages to stay alive for 50 years is a big W in my book! The older generations know about their histories but they never tell the newer generations because time is limited. This leads to the newer generations not knowing their roots.

The problem with 100 years time. Imagine someone like you set up something like this in 1923, and that someone is now dead, and their kids had no interest in keeping it going, infact they had financial problems so sold the site for $50 to someone who let it lapse. You see you need to coordinate people from beyond the grave... a bit like the US Constitution. Hell even countries (in their political form) often don't last 100 years. I am not saying it is impossible, but it is hard, so you need to convince people you are serious. Which might mean, for example working for the internet archive, or a large museum with digital presence for a few years in a senior position, etc. then coming and saying "I am starting this and I know all about keeping stuff around for decades"

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