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[–] user224 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.

[–] blah3166@piefed.social 39 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Check out CryptPad.org, it's:

  • Open Source; so it can't be taken away from you should the org cease to exist.
  • Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people's instances.
  • Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs
  • Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you're using a self-hosted instance or using any other server.
  • End-to-end encrypted: The server admins can't see any of your data.

Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.

EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Wth, I never knew Cryptpad does sheets/forms, that's so cool!

[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

This one is pretty great!