Any good alternatives to google Drive and Docs?

[Rome's rightful successor]

I'm looking for a Kiwifarm approved space to store and write my docs and papers. I do not want to be spied on or have my files be deleted for hatespeach or any of the like. Got any suggestions?

 

[I am vomit]

Are you really living if you don't use notepad only?

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Could revert to offline Google apps like Microsoft office and open office.

If it has to be online, nextcloud seems like the obvious option. If you are smart, self host it with server side encryption and remote storage with regular backups to a different storage provider. If you're less technologically inclined, there are places that offer managed nextcloud instances, but I don't know them well enough to shill them. If anything I'd shill MXroute because they - like our dear feeder - want to set up alternative decentralized services... but their primary product is email, the nextcloud instance is just a bonus.

Spoiler: Shill links

Archive of the MXroute services list because apparently they moved their blog and broke the link

Looks like someone archived their statement after the great wrongthink purge of January 2021

Coupon code, dunno if it's still active

 

[Jump]

Does this need to be hosted and served publicly or are you looking for just yourself?

 

[Account]

1. Register a sock
2. Start a PM chain with the sock
3. Upload files to the PM chain

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For a serious answer, assume all free shit is going to spy on you. The best (and probably cheapest) way is to just self host.
The second best is to edit documents offline (Word on Desktop, Libreoffice, etc.), encrypt the files (i.e. with 7z), and upload them to Google Drive. You'll have to download them to view/edit them. Also remember that Google is going to be able to see the names, so don't upload "AREA 51 NIGGER NUKE, 3RD REVISED.docx.7z" and they shouldn't ban you.

Since all this spying shit is automatic even a bad password like "123" that you share around should defeat them unless you specifically catch their attention.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

You can use rclone to encrypt files before they get uploaded. Works with a lot of online file storage services. I use Opendrive.

 

[TheSkoomer]

Here ya go, nigger!

https://kiwifarms.pa/threads/external-storage-solutions-hard-drives-sd-cards-etc.107979/

But seriously, if you're going to let the CIAniggers big tech store your data for you, at least have the common sense to encrypt it locally BEFORE you upload it.

 

[Frail Snail]

If you only need access to these files from a PC, you can make an encrypted filesystem inside your Google Drive with git-annex on top of rclone. There doesn't seem to be anything similar on Android beyond utilities running inside Termux. The upside to using this is taking advantage of already available free cloud storage space and adding encryption. It purports to work with Google Drive, Dropbox, Yandex Disk and other free shit, so that's a lot of potential volume.

 

[killingmesoftly]

https://etherpad.org/ is good but self hosted

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Are you really living if you don't use notepad only?

Let's make him use a Raspberry Pi server. SSH, tmux, vim, cowsay.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Does this need to be hosted and served publicly or are you looking for just yourself?

Just for myself. Though the ability to email copies would be good.

 

[ditto]

Just for myself. Though the ability to email copies would be good.

SimpleNote.
Pros: Free, Ad-free, easy to share and download notes
Cons: extremely basic (markdown only), owned by Wordpress.

 

[washingmachine]

Cryptpad - Encrypted, cloud based, multiple community run instances
Framapad
Zoho
The cloud is cancer though, I would suggest a local solution like LibreOffice.

 

[Retink]

Have you considered self hosting?

 

[AmpleApricots]

You can send them to me via private message, I'll look after them

The serious answer is don't use any cloud service. If you have to, use them with encryption but be aware that what's safe now encryption-wise might not be in 10-20 years and it stands to reason that many services have long memories (things you delete off them might actualy never really go away) and "thoughtcrime" will be a bigger thing in many a western countries' legislation in the future as will be the influence of the corporations running these clouds. Otherwise do a full harddrive encryption so to not have to make a mind map where which temporary files might leak what ( encryption is usually hardware accelerated by most modern processors anyways) still think about (local) backups. Good practices here are googleable, old, tried and true. If you use Windows you're already compromised privacy-wise. No, toggling some random registry flags with some automated tool won't change that.

 

[Aidan]

Nextcloud may be the answer to everything, but for collaborative WYSIWYG editing I'm not sure. You can self host this or use whatever cloud service you like.

 

[McAfee'sCorpse]

Idk about drive but I use simplenote to write stuff down.

 

[Verdun_Salient]

Necroing but does anyone have a good way to do collaborative documents like Google Docs without using Google Docs?

 

[teriyakiburns]

Necroing but does anyone have a good way to do collaborative documents like Google Docs without using Google Docs?

Other than Office 365, the obvious ones are OnlyOffice and Nextcloud Office. There's probably others as well.

 

[Jones McCann]

Necroing but does anyone have a good way to do collaborative documents like Google Docs without using Google Docs?

Just use git, it's free and open source. Learn the commands add, commit, push, pull, you can track any type of file and collaborate with as many people as you want