Apologizes from late reply. I have Raspberry Pi running Syncthing on LAN. I share my music, youtube-dl'd videos, podcasts etc. with my phone and laptops through it. Also sometimes I use it to share other documents, code etc. Works also as nice backup as the PI runs rsync with cron to store Syncthing contents to other HDD also.
Nextcloud runs on Digital Ocean droplet and I upload my photos there from phone, store contacts and share larger files with people. Currently Syncthing and Nextcloud do not communicate in anyway.
And yeah, youtube-dl has been lifesaver to escape that "rabbithole recommendation engine" as you awesomely put :D
Re:De-Googling: My Progress
by DrAwdeOccarim on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:39AM
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I use a rpi4 running raspbian and resillio sync (https://www.resilio.com/) for my internal photo backups and data syncing. It also shares outside my local network well but the users need the software installed.
Not OP and not a NextCloud or Syncthing user, but maybe this helps:
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/syncthing-nextcloud-how-to/5459...
It would be awesome to have LAN local syncing (as Syntching does), while being able to share doc to the outside world (NextCloud's functionality).
Did you figure this out?
Anther topic: yeah, youtube is not something you can replace, but you can still use other frontends, thus the rabbithole recommendation engine doesn't affect you, nor the advertisements. On Android, NewPipe is a great client.