Farticle Accelerator🇨🇦1d ago
Is anyone here using NextCloud for extended family chat/photo/whatever?

Thoughts?

EDIT: Primary needs are a fall-off-log easy chat and photo sharing system in one app that is available on apple and android.

Current family chat is sms/rcs that inexplicably randomly splits the group chat into subgroups and confuses everyone. Investigated Matrix already and it's too fragile / complicated to try moving them to.

No photo editing needed, no voice/video chats, no shared calendars etc. I'm now thinking next cloud is too heavy for this.

EDIT 2: Found a list of things to investigate github.com/itsbryanman/selfhostedFamily?tab=readme-ov-file

#SelfHosting #familynetwork
GitHub - itsbryanman/selfhostedFamily: collection of family oriented self hosted apps/services

collection of family oriented self hosted apps/services - itsbryanman/selfhostedFamily

GitHub
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@scuttlebutt

Our family cloud to share all documents related to house car loan and for children studies is a self hosted nextcloud.
Some other tools too but nextcloud is really the only one to be daily used.
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@scuttlebutt

I would recommand a #yunohost + #nextcloud app on a raspberry 5 with an external ssd and an hdd to another computer for backups.
If multiple members of the family want to join and have there own home, i would recommand to acquire each a raspberry pi and do ciphered backups using borg apps to othet member of family.
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Show threadFarticle Accelerator🇨🇦21h ago
@artlog I have more than enough capability to self host stuff on my Synology, like this instance I'm posting from. It's already backed up offsite sufficiently too.