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Do you have a plan for what happens to your digital stuff when you die?

#Poll #EvanPoll

  • Strong yes (3%, 27 votes)
  • Qualified yes (20%, 154 votes)
  • Qualified no (34%, 259 votes)
  • Strong no (41%, 315 votes)
755 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

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I’d better! It’s part of what I do for a living. Help people with this kind of stuff.
Technically, I have some stuff for my tiny web business that I have shared with a friend I trust to rescue my clients if I die or am incapacitated. But as far as my personal digital stuff, I haven't made any preparations.

Qualified no.
it all goes with me on the boat, Viking funeral style. 🔥
@bitwarden I have set up the following in the event of my #death:
• #Apple #iCloud Legacy Contact: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212360
• #Bitwarden Emergency Access: https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/
• #ProtonMail and #Proton services in general do not have a specific feature tailored to this, but I do have recovery information safely stored and available by other means.

I had set up #Facebook per their instructions, but I no longer see the option in my settings. I wonder what happened. https://facebook.com/help/991335594313139/
I keep thinking I should do this, one day I'll get to it (unless I die first)
I have a plan, but I haven't actually implemented it. Guess I should figure out how to actually register a will?
Bitcoin wallet private key tattooed where the sun don’t shine 😀
@patrick hopefully you don't die in a terrible sun-don't-shine-related accident that removes your tattoo in the process🤞🏼
thanks for the reminder, I've been meaning to get on that
qualified yes because I am (still) working on it.
No, though I do have a lot of homemade stuff (electronic music, games, game prototypes)..

Assuming I won't end up famous, it's probably just going to end up thrown away / deleted at some point. And that's fine I guess! I won't be around to miss my data 😛
I suppose the one thing I should do is keep a copy somewhere of all my art in a place where my friends can access it, if they so desire. everything will be gone one day but if my friends wanted to see my stuff after I've passed I'd feel bad if it was all behind a password on my laptop they can't get into or online on a server that went down when my corpse forgot to pay for it

not too bent out of shape about it as I know there's processes for recovering this stuff and my hard drive isn't encrypted or anything. just don't wanna make it harder than it needs to be
@star This feels like a plan.
@star
i mean, my digital stuff will effectively just vanish once I’m gone (nobody else has the keys). is that a plan?
idk, we’re answering questions with more questions, i think?
i don’t even know what that is
@est well, do you ever have full conversations that are just two people asking each other questions?
mmmm no i don’t think so
Strong no because things are just a bit too much in flux at the moment. I’m not sure I could keep such a thing sufficiently updated in my present circumstances.
was reminded about this during kast week when a colleague who passed away last spring had a anniversary on LinkedIn. There is also several friends on Facebook that bob about even though the passed away years ago.

I have arranged for my credentials be passed onto my wife or son, in that order, when and if i haven't been active in my accounts 40 days.

The "ping timeout procedure".
whatever will become of my tabs
we started to plan back when I got what was likely SARS1. I thought it was the end. We update our plans every couple years. It's just good to make sure family won't have to worry about not being able to access things.
I guess I don't have a whole lot of digital stuff. Some fiction and poetry I've written, that's about it. I kind of doubt that anyone's going to be interested in saving that. I'm more concerned with how to dispose of my computers, since whoever will deal with that probably has no idea how much they're really worth.
I have a plan but haven't written the code to implement it yet.
Most of my digital stuff are contributions to Wikipedia, so that portion’s not going away. At least not quickly & cleanly. What happens to it then, I dunno.
For those of us with non-tangible digital assets that could hold value, the main question is whether our heirs or executor will take the significant steps to enable that to realize that value. I suspect that if I do not arrange buy-sell agreements with strong incentives and funding plans, then my digital assets will be fodder for vultures.
for the important stuff, yes. For things like online media, no. But I treat that as rentals anyway and if there's anything I really want to pass on I'll pirate it.
Having become a widower a few years back and having thought a lot about death and how messy it is for the survivors to sort through. So I have a plan in place for the few I trust to go through my digital footprint if needed.
@geospart I'm sorry to hear about that. Thanks for the feedback.
Plan, no. Ideas, sort of, although I’ve never even put them down on paper.
Mostly, at the moment, the plan is not to die anytime soon.
@kechpaja awesome. Please don't jaywalk!
I do for my more important accounts like Gmail and GitHub
I have a rough plan in my head, but did not yet prepare/realize it.
most of my time not at work is either sharing important/beautiful experiences with my loved ones or preparing things to be around when I’m not. It’s pretty much the meaning of my life.
Dying in dignity is harder than most people think. Chances are, I'll be wearing a diaper when I die. Shame won't be very high in my list of priorities by then.
The idea of "Cool URI don't change" when one published things that are open-source and in use. Or writings online. Build them at the start as simple tech stack as possible. Photos archived but accessible to SO, siblings. Password manager and EMail account recovery. It's not that simple, but better eventually making it simplest as possible.

My grandfather passed away recently, an uncle lost his home by a fire. Events that makes it think about that.
I don’t want the people that will miss me to think I saddled them with expectations about all my digital hoarding. Let the bits rot with me.
Really, all I have is my wife having my password to my personal KeePass 2 formatted database. I need to leave her instructions on what to do with all those passwords.
I won't use Steam, so don't have to worry about their subscription contract. And avoid DRM where ever possible.

Most of my GOG games are downloaded offline, same for music, shame there's no real legal option for Video.

Got a dead tree document with passwords for most important stuff (email, router, etc), though it does need updating.
I don't even have a plan for the physical stuff... I'm never gonna die 💪
This feels very low.

I am a qualified no. I have filled out the various forms on the various services, but that's about 10% of all the stuff I have that I've made.

I'd like to figure out the best way to use https://archive.org/ to put my stuff up permanently. It feels like the best bet for the long term.
whoof this is a great (and big) question. As the daughter of a wills&estates lawyer I feel woefully underprepared vs where I know I should be on this stuff
do you have a technical executor for your tech and web presence? (me? not really 😰)
my answer was more about “have you given another person access to the desktop and password manager plus breadcrumbs to other important things?”

The answer is “yes” and that person doesn’t live under the same roof. But I haven’t exercised their retention of said access.
I sort of think I've told my partner how to access my 1Password account in case I die but I'm not certain she remembers.