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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by radium3d on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:38AM (#21581863)
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing

Syncthing solves a large part of syncing data between devices using your own VPS, server(s), etc. If your VPS provider goes out of business, you can then just fire up a new VPS and hook it back up to your local machine(s).

Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by Fnoord on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:00AM (#21582784)
Cryptomator [1]. Cross-platform, allows you to encrypt your data in the cloud, and access it transparently.

Thing is, like Syncthing, it lacks a collaborative feature. Nextcloud has it, but only if you have the Nextcloud accessible (I want to host only on LAN). Something like IPFS (or Tor) is a solution to such problem.

[1] https://cryptomator.org/

Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by StavrosK on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:05AM (#21583141)
> it lacks a collaborative feature

It does not, you can share folders with anyone you want without them even needing an account.

Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by mackrevinack on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:55AM (#21582222)
there's also resilio sync that gives you the option have the node/folder on your vps be encrypted. hopefully syncthing will add that feature at some point in the future
Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by Multicomp on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:57AM (#21582772)
I have been considering spending more money than I should finding someone on a freelancer site to add the untrusted node / encrypted file transfer but don't give a certain node the key to decrypt the file support, that is the number one missing feature for syncthing for me.

It would unlock scenarios like share your files with me and I'll share files with you and neither of us will know the others files unless your house burns down in which case you can get your files back just by hookin the sync back up with the encryption key pulled from your password manager.

Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by mappu on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:16PM (#21591417)
You can kind of work around this by sharing an ecryptfs folder.
Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by josteink on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:50AM (#21581928)
Sadly Syncting still lacks iOS-support. As a result I'm running Nextcloud instead.
Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by geolgau on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:18AM (#21582864)
I'm on Android so it works, but I also used Nextcloud for some time and had issues with it "forgetting" about the data folder, so I had to re-create it every time it happened. I wasn't happy about that.

With Syncthing I don't (yet) have this problem.