When you’re gone, everything will be wiped from history, eventually.
Unless you take some steps and work on increasing the longevity of your work.
Whenever there is a comparison in using social media to share ideas vs. your own website. The personal website always wins in most circles.
But when it comes to very long-term benefits then sharing your work on a social platform will have a bigger chance to survive.
Your website will cease to exist as soon as the hosting expires or the domain name expires, whichever is earlier.
My prediction is that most social platforms will also do a purge where they get rid of large portions of data.
If your data is worth monetizing, it will have an even better chance of staying.
If you publish a book, it might stay for a couple more decades unless it’s a hit. If you publish the book on Kindle, then it has a chance to be immortal. So please make a note to turn your entire blog into an ebook just for the sake of its survival.
Upload a repository of your website on GitHub and other places that you think will last.
Keep a fund for your legacy. Ask your family to use it for hosting and domain renewals.
Wayback machine is awesome, but it won’t be able to back everything. Unless big companies come and back it up financially.
Amazing artworks, resources, courses, and ideas have already been lost. Let’s make sure that ours don’t.