Indeed it’s not really invites-friendly. But what I like is that it’s really light, and avoid cluttering my Nextcloud. My Nextcloud is just for files, syncing and sharing them. That’s all, and that avoids a lot of headaches when backuping for instance.

I use Baikal, but it seems Nextcloud is a popular solution.

I find that you’re making a lot of assumptions on my friendships based on my 4 lines comment.

I do chat with my friends via SMS or phone cause I indeed have their number. But you can’t deny that SMS for group chats is pretty gruesome.

Based on that, everybody is used to those popular chat apps and have their other group chats on them. Why would I make them change when they work for what’s intended? Privacy is the best argument, but they may not all care enough to not find it bothering. So I don’t bother ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I’m on the same page. I would prefer not having those apps installed or even an account, but my friends are more worth to me than my IT ideals.

Well I see it as more of a daily thing to backup my new photos. I can imagine such amount of photos can take a long time ^^’

PhotoSync, for a buck per month or 10/year, it can auto upload and sort on a lot of backends. I just use SFTP myself, but there are GDrive, S3, WebDAV… and it auto uploads at night correctly without being open.

Photos, legal docs, passwords and contacts book (in a lesser extent I guess, it should be fairly easy to rebuild for my family)

Fair enough, I may have confused selfhosted with homelabs in my answers.

I guess we can say we’re not in the selfhosted circles anymore haha

I’ve already seen that in Mali…

I totally understand the appeal. But I don’t usually see people explaining the drawbacks and alternatives. Only a plain and simple “just use CF tunnel” for instance.

Tbh I don’t think as a DNS provider they are too bad, it’s pretty simple and one or another will do the job. I was more thinking about the techs talked in the article, or features such as tunnels and all.

I hate it when in selfhosted circles they recommend CF. Why in hell would you want to be tied to them when you are wary enough to selfhost ¯_(ツ)_/¯