Hello!
I recently had issues with my self-hosted instance of Nextcloud so I started looking for an alternative to it.
I would like something that could allow me to make a local network of shared files between devices I choose, if that makes any sense.
I stumbled upon Syncthing but it doesen’t seem what I had in mind: I understand that it replicates folders between devices, but I am looking for a way to distribuite files between machines. Again, like Nextcloud but without a central server to rely to.
Do you know if something of that sort exists?
Or if you have any other solution?
Thank you.
P.S. I am posting it here because it seems like some sort of self-hosting, but maybe I will cross-post it to the decentralized comunity.
I wonder why you are being downvoted, I agree that self-hosting Nextcloud isn’t easy, upgrades break things, apps don’t work properly etc!
Also a distributed personal cloud thing that I maybe host a server for which has 2x the storage which is then shared with others would be cool and maybe more reliable. But that would be a very ambitious software project.
Oh I read your other comments and syncthing is literally what you are looking for. It’s like nextcloud in most ways, but without the nextcloud server, you can make a nextcloud folder or whatever and have it synced between devices without a server.
I disagree Syncthing is like nextcloud. I find it useful to describe Syncthing like an always-running rsync between multiple machines. nextcloud is a web ui for files and other apps, they serve very different purposes.