Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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James Sundquist is a volunteer community manager and documentation manager for NextcloudPi, and an admin for the Nextcloud community. In this clip he shares his recommendations for people to ditch big tech cloud providers such as using peer to peer file sharing technology like Syncthing or by using a community run Nextcloud instance.

Discuss on the Techlore Forum: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/escape-big-tech-with-nextcloudpi-james-sundquist-interview/7323

Syncing tool that James recommended:
syncthing.net

Nextcloud hosts that James recommended:
disroot.org
https://weho.st

Tools James recommended to encrypt your files:
gnupg.org
cryptomator.org

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