What does HackerNews think of DecSync?

"Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network" https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/append-only-social.html

The distribution idea is glorious, but we'd all be better off with an application like it built on top of Syncthing ( https://syncthing.net/ ), ala DecSync ( https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync )

Or use DecSync [0] and eliminate the need for any central server.

[0]: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

Leave out the GNOME bit. It would be nicer that way. Look at Synching, and DecSync built on top of it for example: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

I wrote a bit about it at a blog post [0]. My idea is to substitute the "cloud" (i.e, your data and applications running on someone else's computers) for a "lake" of your own devices where you can replicate and synchronize the data, and use native free applications for each of the devices that you have.

So, for hardware

- Workstations: Linux

- Mobile: /e/OS [1]

For software:

- GDrive -> Syncthing for the documents, LibreOffice on workstations, simple document viewers on mobile

- Email: My own domain, service provided by namecheap, costs ~20€/year.

- Contacts, Calendar -> Syncthing to synchonize the files between the devices, and DecSync [2] as a calendar provider on thunderbird (workstation) and k-mail (mobile)

- App Store: F-Droid for most software, and the odd exception (Berlin ticket for public transportation) that is not F/OSS I use the /e/OS store (which proxies some of the apps from Google into their own store)

- Maps: MagicEarth (works well, uses OSM data, can do navigation decently and allows to choose download maps to keep offline). One of these days I will try again to self-host a tiling server, but I'm not sure what I would do for navigation.

- Messaging: Matrix/Element is my main client, I also have XMPP. Both are hosted by communick, the "professional managed service" that I run [3]. I also have Telegram (FOSS client) on mobile, but I've been meaning to implement the bridge on communick so that I can ditch the client. I use hangouts only on the computer if and only if the other party is not available on the preferred methods.

- Search: Brave search is working well. I preferred Brave over DDG because Brave is building their own index. If you think your queries are not giving you good results, you can turn on "Google mixing", where they make a (proxied) query to Google and show their results mixed with their own.

[0]: https://raphael.lullis.net/thinking-heads-are-not-in-the-clo...

[1]: https://e.foundation

[2]: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

[3]: https://communick.com

shoutout to DecSync (https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync) to use Syncthing with your CalDAV/CardDAV contacts/calendars/tasks and sync local RSS feeds across devices. I don't really use nextcloud anymore for stuff that is only for myself and does not need to be shared

There's also DecSync Synchronize RSS, contacts, calendars, tasks and more without a server https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

And DAVx5 https://www.davx5.com/

It's easy to forget that sometimes you don't really need to host things. I used to run a Next Cloud server for syncing my documents, contacts, and calendar with all my devices. I'd rarely use a device that was not mine to access those things. I've switched to Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) and DecSync (https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync) and that's replaced 95% of what Next Cloud did for me.

Your use case might differ from mine quite a bit, but for me it was the best way to go. No server to babysit and everything "Just Works™".