Host your own "Cloud"! Why? Because it is amazing in a sense.

Just, for the first time got the directory of a project shared from a foreign nextcloud instance into my own. Works like a charm.

Strangely I seem to be able to re-share this directory. O_o Now I'll have to see if anyone has exploited this already. 😞 Or, more likely, if it has been called a "feature".

But still, I am positively happy about this simple way to cooperatively work over federated instances. Basically, because the Internet has been designed as such a wonderfully distributed place and all these centralized (web-)services have been destroying this through their (economically motivated) monopolization of the "cyber"space.

#distributedsystems for teh win!

@lafischer Yes, host your own cloud.

But what does cloud mean?
Is it "data is somewhere at not my place?"
Is it "cloud like all my main office work tools are websites like O365 or Google Office?"
Is it "cloud as in a cloud (software development) way of working like on azure and aws?"

For each of these definitions of cloud there's different tools.

@mcfly Yes, I guess I have been using Marketing Speak. I was talking about those magical file directories with web interface and all kind of wondrous web applications. Calendars, editors, geo thingies...