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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jaackf@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 63 points 1 year ago (28 children)

For me it's 100% Nextcloud. It was a pain to get working at first (and I'm dreading the day it breaks, if that happens). But it is so much more than just a self-hosted Dropbox solution:

  • Maps
  • Calendar
  • Email
  • Markdown editor (I'm using this to try and replace Google Drive for collaborative document editing with my friends; most of what we need can be achieved with Markdown formatting)
  • I haven't tried it but there is a Talk plugin that allows for video conferencing in browser;
  • a bunch of other stuff I've never played with like mind maps, PDF conversion, music player, etc.
[–] DengueDucky@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My experience has been that Nextcloud can do 1000 different things, and it sucks at all of them.

[–] please_lemmy_out@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That's a little harsh but I definitely agree it doesn't tend to offer a better or equal alternative to any free options available. You're giving up a certain level of ease of use.

[–] plo@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

I tried setting up nextcloud. Just ended up creating a samba share instead.

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not getting Microsoft Office or Apple quality mail clients, or word editors, but the fact that it’s always available to me is enough to make the trade off worth it. YMMV

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Been using nextcloud for about 5 years, right now I use it for storing files and nothing else, and it still kinda sucks at that.

Gonna use paperless for any documents I have in NC, after that there won’t be much left in there, just some old dot files. Maybe I’ll get rid of it entirely

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