“Dumbass. Get a nextcloud installation and own your own cloud”
Label me a dumbass. I’ve programmed assembly and object-based languages and this is too complicated for the average phone user.
I shouldn’t have made the dumbass comment because I’m not your average computer user and have experience with web technologies. It was aimed at a user of google tech really, not aimed at people who can’t install and set up their own similar services.
Like I said, just trying to install a phone or desktop client app isn’t going to do anything for you. It needs a nextcloud server installation to connect to.
I’ve built a bunch of websites, mostly by installing WordPress or similar and installing NextCloud server web app was almost as easy as installing WordPress.
In either case, you have to create a new database on the server first, then upload files and surf to an install file/wizard and then fill in the credentials for database access, create admin user name and password etc.
Once nextcloud web server app is running, then you get the client app to connect to the server/cloud web app by pasting in a special url and signing in with same user name and password.
All of this has taken time to learn here and there over the years. I started out building websites in plain html in the 90s that had no more styling than FR.
I would think one could find non-google services to do most of the same things but you’d have to pay for them. After all, if a service is free, you are the product or your personal data is.