How to use Nextcloud?

[Araraura]

I've seen Nextcloud recommended as a good privacy cloud storage almost everywhere, but I was never able to figure out how to use it. It gives a ton of provider options without telling me what's the difference between them or their pricing or which one I should choose. Some of them are not even in English. How can I choose a good provider other than to check if they support E2EE (which none of the ones I saw do)?

[ph00lt0]

Nextclouds E2EE is flawed and usually setup fails. Don't use nextcloud from providers, only use it if you self host it.
I could recommend to use Cryptomator.

[d4rklynk]

Yes agreed

[d4rklynk]

If you can't self-host Nextcloud, I'll suggest you to go with Proton Drive, you have 500GB, it is enough for most people. It is 10€/$ each month, but privacy is expensive when it comes to service providers.
https://proton.me/pricing

[d4rklynk]

if you don't want to pay that much, you can use OneDrive, with M365 you have 1To. See pricing plans.

And obviously you use Cryptomator to sync your data

[ph00lt0]

Proton Drive is still in beta and quite unusable tho, there is no sync clients, no app, effectively useless (unless you want to drag and drop every version manually through the browser).

[d4rklynk]

Proton Drive is quite enough for me, but I also have M365, that's maybe why I don't lack of anything x)

[dngray]

We've made some changes here regarding the E2EE privacyguides/privacyguides.org#1901