Looking for a FOSS alternative to Google Docs for remote collaboration (lemmy.world)

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A friend and I have a long running Pathfinder homebrew that we have collaborated on for nearly a decade in Google Docs. It is 168 pages long and represents a body of work that we are both incredibly proud of. With Google's recent activities banning people from their own private documents, I no longer trust them with the document. I would love of LibreOffice supported local cloud hosting, but they do not. I could install Dropbox API on my Raspberries Pi and just set up my own cloud server, but I really don't want to be responsible for the maintenance.

Any FOSS software out there make it easy to do the whole private cloud with collaboration tools in word procrssing?

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[-] Kovu@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

cryptpad.org

[-] b72@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Another vote for CryptPad. Hosted in France at https://cryptpad.fr/ and so not tied to US datacentres, and all your data is encrypted.

[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 8 points 1 day ago

Cryptpad is also self-hostable, if that's your bag.

[-] vas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I think a more fair name should be OnlyOffice. Wrapped in CryptPad for privacy and encryption. I'd also note a level of controversy around OnlyOffice, it being (still) developed in Russia, not making "we support Ukraine" / "we condemn the war" statements. There's a bit more of that not just about the war, too.

And also to be fair, the product itself is visually quite decent, especially if you're looking for online collaboration.

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I am loving the look of cryptpad, but for some reason when I open the .odt file I exported from docs it does not actually bring in any of the info. LibreOffice opens it perfectly and shows the comments and suggestions and everything, so I am not sure what to do to get it working.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Export it from LibreOffice in to a more digestible format? Not sure what problems you're hitting or features you need, just pointing out that a two+ step solution might be more apt.