What happens to your data after you die

[barfood]

Re: What happens to your data after you die

I think that's a terrific question, which I haven't fully solved myself.

At the moment, I try to take advantage of free cloud storage options as much as possible. For example, all my step charts are stored on GitLab in a repository. I have separate repositories for code I've written, pieces of text, my website etc. I post most of my videos on YouTube or Google Photos, hoping that they won't get deleted someday...

All my credentials are stored in a password manager, and I plan of giving the access codes to the vault in my will. That way, my "successors" will have access to everything, even unlisted cloud content.

[gold stinger]

Re: What happens to your data after you die

It really has to be looked at via a real world scenario of what would constitute something valuable vs not valuable, to get a definitive answer to the idea.

Say, a twitch streamer dies, and leaves the access keys to his account, stream setup, computer, etc. to one individual. One person might find value in the computer and keep the computer, and see no value in keeping an account of someone whom is dead, and have it deleted.

A completely different person may see no value in the computer and sell it since they have a better one, but keep the twitch account because there are still active subscribers and people subscribing. There's shit-tons of twitch accounts out there that don't really stream anymore, but see steady income because people like the emotes, and Twitch is okay with hooking the account to someone else because they don't want to see that income loss.

The perspective in value depends on the person who receives it. Quite literally the saying 'one man's junk is another man's treasure' rings true here. Since you can't actively measure the 'value' of one account on a service to another, they all get treated equally when written down as 'the keys to this person's something' as an asset. Whether those keys are to a broken down honda civic, or a lamborghini.


Who knows. Right now you may think of a Neopets account is valueless, literal garbage, they're free to make so just make another one. People had the same opinion of Pokemon cards about 10 years ago.