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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[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Your response is well written and entirely misses the mark. Also, there are 100% free alternatives with all most all of the same features as Google Docs that have been suggested here. I am so confused by how far off the mark you are from both my OP and the general content of the responses here.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Fair enough.

At one point you said you want to offload the cloud part up Dropbox, and don't want to maintain the cloud infrastructure. I used to integrate Collabora into NextCloud, and that's something I don't want to do again.

So I guess as I said, it's way better to paid $5 a month if said cloud vendor exists, who could integrate offline office suite.

And thank you for your kind words even though you thought my comment missed your mark and not being helpful.