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Cancelled Dropbox (lemmy.world)
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Such a good feeling cancelling my paid tier on Dropbox this week. I've been 'playing' at self hosting for a few months, and now I'm confident in my infrastructure and processes so I can start turning off some of the cloud things I've been paying for.

Dropbox has gone in favor of Syncthing over Tailscale in a hub and spoke arrangement to a VM at home. The main compromise I've had to make is on the iOS experience.

The next subscriptions I'll be cancelling will be Evernote (I have so loved this over the years, but as they've added 'features' the app experience has degraded to the point where it's no longer reliable to add notes from my phone). I'm currently trying Obsidian for this , but thinking about a simpler web markdown editor for mobile.

After that, all my Wordpress blogs will be coming home to my VPS, I imagine with some sort of static site generator.

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[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey congrats! If you're exploring, I've had great success with the free tiers on sync.com (cloud storage) and notion (notes). I also have the iOS sad re:syncthing, which I use almost exclusively now.

If you want to try sync get yourself an invite from an existing user for free extra gigabytes. They're a solid, sensible company and their free tier is more than enough for the few things I need handy on my phone.

I tried both notion and obsidian and for some reason notion just stuck for me. I like that I can share notes with coworkers. Ever note went down the tubes a few years ago, which was a drag.

Edit: reading that back I sound like a fucking shill. I do not get kickbacks lmao. Just wanted to share the programs that help when I can't self-host.

[-] kijilo7183@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'm interested. Please share/ PM your link? Thanks.

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

DM'd ya! Yay free extra storage. Thanks!

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