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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.

The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey :D

This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh my god, this seems really good and closer to what I want than anything yet. Been looking for something to replace Nextcloud and found nothing good so I might take a look at this.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I replaced nextCloud’s file sharing with Syncthing just recently, as I found myself only synchronising between two computers (one desktop, one smartphone) anyway. :-)

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

That won’t work for me since I have multiple people using this Nextcloud instance, and I also use it to publicly share files. I also have a big network share (currently 5 TB of data) that I would like to better integrate somehow (right now it’s available from Nextcloud read-only in essentially “anonymous mode” with no access to private user files).

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just curious, why did you replace nextcloud? I'm looking into transitioning from my current file server, and I've mostly heard only good things and not NextCloud.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I want something with a permission model that works the same when accessed over a network share (SMB, ideally NFS) and access over a web interface. Ideally it would have a Mac File Provider sync client and whatever the Windows equivalent is called as well.

Nextcloud is fine but it’s not that.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nextcloud is like Windows 95, it works great when you install it then it just keeps getting slower as you fill it with content

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, it’s like Wordpress, growing new slow features you’ll never need with each new release.

[–] Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

They recently recieved a "Blauer Engel" certificate for nextcloud-server. Iirc that seal requires the user to be able to choose what he wants. So new features are OK but they have to be optional. That certificate is handed out by a german government Institution. And very recently they started handing it out to software too, with nextcloud beeing the first BIG reciever.