is there an ethical collaborative document platform that you don't have to self host?

oooooor is self hosting something like HedgeDoc REALLY they way to do it?

@lislegaard what I would use in team I’m with now is something simple like just VS code, because everybody knows it — then we all have a copy — we will also use github because everybody knows it

I did not spend time searching because if I find something good, I will only end up trying to sell it, while the slowest on team will make the fallback solution be back where we started, so I just spent time looking for a solution

@v4rd4453n

ah i should have probably been more clear on this:

this is not a coding team or similar. this is brainstorming between more and much less technical musicians :)

@lislegaard people use github now for anything— why not — people have been doing creative writing there for years apparently https://jjmerelo.medium.com/writers-start-collaborating-using-github-now-82167b428de7
Writers: start collaborating using GitHub now - JJ Merelo - Medium

Most writers will be just happy writing by themselves, even if they do it in the open and using GitHub, which they just and happily learned. However, and unsurprisingly, what collaborative tools like…

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@v4rd4453n

thanks for the suggestion! noted indeed!

@lislegaard only github vanilla is not good for live collaboration, you would need some sort of interface— and as I think more about it, live editing in a git repo will be hell if a large team of not so technically inclined, because you will have conflicts in the commits

that is why I say, you can use git as a fallback storage for the live collaborative effort

so you would do a live server collaboration and then, the one person hosting the live server would commit and push the work for the whole team to reference

@lislegaard @v4rd4453n Check out https://excalidraw.com – an #opensource (and #selfhostable if you want to) collaborative whiteboard that is perfect for brainstorming and writing out stuff with others!
Excalidraw — Collaborative whiteboarding made easy

Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

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