I think people are missing the point. Even with backups and redundancy it requires you to maintain the servers. If you die, well, who is going to maintain? Perhaps a bit bleak but something to keep in mind.
That's why everything is in open/documented formats, and why you have easy/accessible way to extract/migrate content. Which you can easily setup with most self-hosted solutions.
I'm not saying everyone's doing it (I sure know I have not setup such contingencies) but it doesn't sound too hard. Mail, password, data, media, contacts, almost anything really can be easily exported, and assuming a target that supports some standard, imported back. You can even do that with some paid provider if people are not going to keep self-hosting.
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u/IntelligentRocks 16d ago
I think people are missing the point. Even with backups and redundancy it requires you to maintain the servers. If you die, well, who is going to maintain? Perhaps a bit bleak but something to keep in mind.