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Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.

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bewCloud is a modern and simpler alternative to Nextcloud and ownCloud written in TypeScript (bewcloud.com)

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Looks quite nice, but I have not tried it.

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And they also recently got an NLnet grant to add CalDAV/CardDAV and public file sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s very cool! I personally hate but run nextcloud. Good to have another alternative

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I switched to https://github.com/kd2org/karadav from Nextcloud as I can continue using the Nextcloud apps and other WebDAV integrations. Together with https://www.filestash.app/ it makes for a quite nice and lightweight Nextcloud alternative.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I just set up a Nextcloud server this weekend, and this is the second time since I've heard people complaining about it.

I guess I should try some of the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

i am always happy to see people setting up their own instance - nextcloud or not - so cheers to that 🙌

its also a good idea to try alternatives to find what suits your needs (and the needs of other users who you share your instance with). no system is perfect and knowing a systems' issues is important if you are responsible for maintaining it.

i think a diverse landscape of open source project is also important so i am happy to see the link posted by poVoc. good to see that people put effort in making distributed hosting even better.

having said all that i do also want to share a more positive view on nextcloud with you. i genuinely think that nextcloud is a great system. it is easy to install and to maintain. it integrates well enough with most standard applications that people want to use. and if it doesn't, a work around is usually two clicks away - thanks to the giant user community. in all the years that i have used it (in various contexts) it has rarely let me down. in my opinion it has reached a point (in terms of usability and stability) at which it becomes a great alternative to big tech platforms. importantly: also for organizations which still need to be convinced that free (libre) projects are a "good enough". to me this last point is especially important - migrating an organization away from big tech can be stressful. relying on nextcloud as a fairly stable system which is used by a huge community lowers my level of stress.

nextcloud is not perfect but it allows me to provide whats needed to those i care about without causing me nightmares :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I just find it too bulky with too many mediocre features creeping in.

I’ve also had some dumb issues with it occasionally.

I liked seafile more but want my files in a readable directory