[SFS] NextCloud, diaspora*, email, etc.

[Mike Shoup]

Email: I use Proton mail. I don't want to deal with spam.

Nextcloud: I use it and teach it. It's running in my basement right now. My wife stopped using Dropbox and users our Nextcloud server.

Social media: I quit Facebook and don't miss it. Rarely use the Twitter. I have been known to frequent Reddit. Never tried the other options like diaspora.

-------- Original Message --------
On Jan 26, 2019, 8:02 PM, DLWillson wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Email: Zimbra Collaboration Server. I *love* it. The old one has IM, but the spam-filter sucks. The new one has no IM, but the spam-filter is not bad. Has calendar, tasks, contacts, directory, briefcase (files), and everything is shareable. Free accounts for fishes.
>
> Nextcloud: I did it as an Ubuntu snap, like professor Shoup taught me. Works great, lays a long time. Free accounts for fishes.
>
> Social/micro-blog: I'm still stuck on Twitter and Facebook. I was on Diaspora for a while, but nobody else was, and... There's an interesting tension between privacy and connectedness in blogging. I'm about ready to go back to straight-up WordPress, or ... maybe SoundCloud, where I can audioblog. I'd love to go where the geeks are, but I don't know where they are, but holy crap, Facebook and Twitter can be vile, sometimes. No good answer here, I'm afraid.
>
> David L. Willson
> 720-333-LANS
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "P. Hoemke" <hoemke.paul at gmail.com>
> Date: 1/25/19 10:22 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: sfs at lists.sofree.us
> Subject: [SFS] NextCloud, diaspora*, email, etc.
>
> So for those of us wanting to take complete and total control of "all
> the things" independently, how are you using things like NextCloud,
> social networking, hosting, and of course that wicked old monster,
> email?
>
> Worst first: Hosting your own email is just begging for trouble,
> because damn the spammers! But it can be done -- who's doing it, and
> how bad is it, and what stack do you use?
>
> NextCloud, that seems pretty straightforward, wherever you host it
> (home/colo hardware, AWS/Azure, hosting co, SaaS vendor), unless you
> want addons maybe?
>
> Social networking is now all walled gardens that are more like cattle
> pens -- but what's the alternative? That I'm not sure of: diaspora*?
> Mastodon? Other? Back to blogs?
>
> Curious everybody's thoughts and approaches. Seems like I need to
> seize the carpe by the horns, as the poets say... :)
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
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