After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.

So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.

While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.

  • Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
  • Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
  • hedders@fedia.io
    3·
    9 months ago

    It involves spending money, but I wonder whether a Synology NAS might suit you rather well? Synology Drive, Synology Photos et al make a pretty respectable replacement for the Googles.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I’ve talked mad shit about Nextcloud repeatedly. That said, I keep trying it. Almost compelled to make it work for me. This stubbornness lead me to NextcloudPi. And I don’t know what they do to that image/build, but it works very well on my Pi 4 w/4GB. Then I tried it in a docker container on my main server and it ran like trash again. So, ymmv? Easy enough to stand it up for a test though.

    I’m a huge fan of Seafile. It’s the best Google drive/Dropbox replacement, imo. It does support Collabora or Open Office integration as well, but I can’t get that to work. Take that as a sign of me still learning rather than a slight against the product. I will say though, their documentation needs work. It’s quite a mess.

    • Moshpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Hi! I am also looking for an alternative to Google Docs more oriented to LibreOffice. You said you tried Collabora for ARM64 on Nextcloud, Docker or both?

      • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I have NextcloudPi image running on a Pi 4 with a CODE server and Nextcloud Office both installed from the Nextcloud “app store”. This is working great for office type docs.

        I will say I tried to do the same with Nextcloud docker images from linuxserver.io as well as the official AIO image and could not get the Office function to work. Both of those ran horribly on my older server too, so I gave up on them. NextcloudPi seems to be highly optimized and running well on the Pi 4.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Meet -> Jitsi

    For Drive, do you need the editor to be web-based? If not, you could just enable SSH access and access it through SFTP using keyfile authentication.

  • Cyberflunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    https://alternativeto.net/software/bigbluebutton/?license=opensource https://alternativeto.net/software/nextcloud/

    Alternative too has great suggestions to get started.

    I’m a bigbluebutton fan, a friend of mine uses whereby and it works great, with absolutely no registration needed. https://alternativeto.net/software/appear-in/about/

    Next cloud/own cloud is great

    I’ve migrated to tutanota for email/calendar. I miss Google calendar though.

  • zorflieg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Fastmail.com is excellent if you are considering Protonmail. Excellent performance, has a drive function and it sits somewhere between Google and proton in the privacy department.

    • adONis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’ve already switched to protonmail. And tried skiff before that, which I didn’t like that much.

      I might give fastmail a try. Thx

  • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    In danger of stating the obvious, I would suggest nextcloud for google drive (and their office equivalent) replacement , since it is very well integrated in most operating systems and there are many apps/add-ons for it. You can even integrate your web services into their web dashboard. I’m in the process of moving my iCloud stuff there.

    • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
      01·
      9 months ago

      I may also add that if one doesn’t want to host something himself, Hetzner offers quite cheap Nextcloud instances with admin access and thus the possibility to add users/apps.

  • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    If your “meeting” requirement is just viewing a screen then Rustdesk is super easy. if you want video and audio Webex Teams is great, or jitsi if you want to stay away from cisco.

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      Webex Teams Free

      Features

      Meeting length limit: Up to 40 min
Meeting capacity: Up to 100
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Video messaging by Vidcast
Meeting recording: Local Storage