Looking for some Google Workspace alternatives

After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.

So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.

While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.

  • Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
  • Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
zorflieg,

Fastmail.com is excellent if you are considering Protonmail. Excellent performance, has a drive function and it sits somewhere between Google and proton in the privacy department.

ad_on_is,
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve already switched to protonmail. And tried skiff before that, which I didn’t like that much.

I might give fastmail a try. Thx

ad_on_is,
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

Actually… I think I like fastmail

Cyberflunk,

alternativeto.net/software/bigbluebutton/?license…alternativeto.net/software/nextcloud/

Alternative too has great suggestions to get started.

I’m a bigbluebutton fan, a friend of mine uses whereby and it works great, with absolutely no registration needed. alternativeto.net/software/appear-in/about/

Next cloud/own cloud is great

I’ve migrated to tutanota for email/calendar. I miss Google calendar though.

spudwart,

Okay, I’m genuinely confused about the NextCloud hate.

I’ve been using it for a month, and It’s literally had 0 issues.

Nothing about it seems unstable or slow. I’m 99% certain if you’re having issues with nextcloud, it’s a hardware issue.

zorflieg,

It gets hate for the number of users over the years who run a seemingly innocuous update and it suddenly nerfs their server and they have to roll back and wait and ponder why it happened meanwhile being stuck without updates until they figure out why. I left because of it but I’m told it doesn’t happen anywhere near as often as it once did.

PlutoniumAcid,
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I run a home server and a NAS and I have been trying to get Nextcloud running for years, lately having some success using Docker. Sure it works, but slow as molasses. That is immensely frustrating.

Father_Redbeard,
@Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve talked mad shit about Nextcloud repeatedly. That said, I keep trying it. Almost compelled to make it work for me. This stubbornness lead me to NextcloudPi. And I don’t know what they do to that image/build, but it works very well on my Pi 4 w/4GB. Then I tried it in a docker container on my main server and it ran like trash again. So, ymmv? Easy enough to stand it up for a test though.

I’m a huge fan of Seafile. It’s the best Google drive/Dropbox replacement, imo. It does support Collabora or Open Office integration as well, but I can’t get that to work. Take that as a sign of me still learning rather than a slight against the product. I will say though, their documentation needs work. It’s quite a mess.

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