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Time to 1) grab/download the entire mailbox from Gmail 2) delete the mailbox at Gmail 3) export all gdrive data, use the export function 4) delete the gdrive d
by antocv 8y ago
Time to
1) grab/download the entire mailbox from Gmail
2) delete the mailbox at Gmail
3) export all gdrive data, use the export function
4) delete the gdrive data
5) register with fastmail, yandex or protonmail
6) start mailpile on your raspberry pi or similar
7) use mailpile as frontend for yandex/protonmail/other-imap account.
8) nextcloud as good enough but shitty replacement for gdrive
Self-hosted ftw.
- jorgemf 8y agoyesterday was too late to make backups...
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI'm still surprised there's no better alternatives to Nextcloud out there yet.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThere are. I use Sandstorm.io and Cloudron is also out there. They're modern containerized platforms you can run any number of other open source web apps on.
- gsich 8y agoBut how is that an alternative to Nextcloud? An example for that would be Seafile.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoIn Sandstorm.io's case, I use an app called Davros to store files (which is even compatible with some ownCloud sync clients, actually), and Cloudron.io has a few other options you can use to work with your files, including, actually just hosting Nextcloud or ownCloud on it. Where these sorts of platforms really excel is in the realm of other features, which Nextcloud tacks onto the existing platform, but a larger app platform can allow you to use a variety of alternatives which are more tailor-made to other specific types of web apps.
- gsich 8y ago>including, actually just hosting Nextcloud or ownCloud on it. But that's not an alternative anymore, just the same.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoNot really the same either, just inclusive. The rest of the ecosystem could potentially have more features altogether.
- antocv 8y agoI am surprised as you. Perhaps people who get started working on it quickly end up working on distributed file systems in general, and disappear in that hole.
- tortasaur 8y agoNextcloud could be better in some areas, but I don't see how it's bad. I'm very happy with it for personal cloud storage I can trust.