• renzev@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      It’s pretty good. Definitely better then self-hosted stuff like nextcloud, because you don’t need to maintain your own server. But sometimes it takes a while for two hosts to discover each other on the same local area network.

      • untorquer@lemmy.world
        102·
        5 months ago

        I’ve never noticed any delay after first discovery. But i only use 3 devices so 🤷

      • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        5 months ago

        I think they’re both good for different use-cases. I use nextcloud myself on a truenas system. I sync things like my pictures to nextcloud, and delete them from my phone after I’ve sorted them into the correct folders.

        This way my data isn’t clogging up my phone and other things, is still available from anywhere (as long as my home internet doesn’t go down), and it’s still safely stored on redundant storage.

        This does take a bit more setting up than something like syncthing, though it wasn’t very difficult at all. Basically install the docker image, tell it where my data goes, and set up a new dns record if you want it publicly accessible. I personally run it through a zerotier network so I don’t have to do that.

        • GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee
          1·
          5 months ago

          I like Nextcloud on my TrueNAS scale setup, but for photos I’ve started using Immich. It works extremely well, and does automatic backups of specific folders from your phone. The interface looks nice too.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      I’m pretty sure the average user doesn’t even know what a “server” really is, let alone know how to set up an FTP server.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      121·
      5 months ago

      Pfft I’ve bet you’ve never even tried cross-pollinating a syncmap blockchain to your distributed SM-IP 42G node

      Noob

      • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
        4·
        5 months ago

        Only because IPv6 and self-hosting are not mainstream yet. But if it were commonplace for everyone’s home to have something as simple as a public file server or SSH server, then this problem would be trivialized.

        • dan@upvote.au
          3·
          5 months ago

          Opera tried to make self-hosting mainstream back in 2009 with Opera Unite, but regular people just weren’t interested. It was a web server built in to the browser, which had a few apps like a whiteboard, a way to write notes, file transfers, etc.

          Also, IPv6 is already mainstream in some countries. In the USA, several of the mobile networks are IPv6-only, using 464XLAT to allow connections to legacy IPv4-only servers. Comcast/Xfinity was also the first ISP to roll out IPv6 at a wide scale, and the majority of their customers had IPv6 connectivity way back in 2014 or so.

          Globally, around 50% of traffic to Google and 60% of traffic to Facebook are using IPv6.

        • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
          0·
          5 months ago

          For sure, let me just make an account, install the app, find and add them- wait, he drove over with a USB? Jokes aside, thanks for the recommendation, but it’s not any simpler than the 2011 solutions if you haven’t set it up already.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        I have a USB c multi adapter somewhere. Had SD, micro SD, USB a to put a mouse on a phone or a regular flash drive. It was nifty until I lost it. A lot of modern mobos come with a USB c port so it’s almost a universal tool.

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
      1·
      5 months ago

      I need a USBC floppy drive now. “Hey, can I get that pic you took?”

      “Sure! Its on these 4 floppies!”