Hi, finally setting up Nextcloud in an effort to de-Google myself and replace GDrive for good.

I am currently running Nextcloud via Tailscale and that works fine except for when i want to share a file to someone outside of my Tailnet. I have heard of federated Nextcloud but i am not sure that i quite understood the purpose of this or maybe there is a better solution? If i run two instances like that, will i simply be able to share certain files over to that instance for sharing?

      • CaptObvious@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
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        3 years ago

        Understandable, but if you’re sharing it, it’s not private in that sense anyway. This may be a legitimate use case for GDrive, Dropbox, Box, etc. Or just use sneakernet.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I think for the Nextcloud federation to work, both instances need to be publicly accessible.

  • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I run two nextcloud instances for this exact purpose (set up using this role so it’s not more complex to manage than just one instance).

    Personal instance on home server, shared instance on rented VPS. When I want to share a file/folder I just copy it to the VPS instance and use the “share by link” feature.