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Your guide to a new File Storage service! (NEW) (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] ashughes@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cryptpad has been my go-to for a while now. Like kDrive they use OnlyOffice for online docs and sheets editing and collaboration, but unlike kDrive they provide e2ee out of the box.

I was on Nextcloud for a while but found it a bit cumbersome. Tried Filen which worked well for personal use but I run a small business and volunteer with a couple orgs where I support the cloud storage and collaboration apps, and Filen doesnโ€™t work for this use case.

Cryptpad works well self-hosted (although they do have cloud offerings) and I donโ€™t have to worry about maintaining a separate OnlyOffice backend either (which I had to do with Nextcloud). This ends up saving me money on server infrastructure too.

Iโ€™m not sure why itโ€™s not included in the graphic but I think it should definitely be in consideration.

Thanks for doing this.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 7 points 3 days ago

Thank you @FallenWalnut@lemmy.world

[โ€“] paperBark@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Satisified filen customer here!

That's cool that kDrive uses onlyoffice as their backend; that's my preferred desktop FOSS office suite after testing formatting compatibility to MS word back when I gave a shit about that. I don't really need an online office suite these days but still cool. Too bad their storage is not e2ee ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

They are publicly against e2ee, they are even supporting a proposal to ban it nationwide in Switzerland. Proton and other Swiss privacy oriented companies have voiced their criticisms.

[โ€“] divingdonkey@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

This exactly. No e2ee on kdrive was a deal breaker for me, but otherwise their service is really solid. So now I'm happy with filen on Android, Linux and Windows.