So…yeah. As I’m moving away from google, I’d like to store my contacts elsewhere. I have proton (I know, I know), but this is also not great, since their system isn’t too android-friendly. Which system (maybe self-hosted) would you suggest to easily sync/backup your contacts?

Thanks!

  • Garibaldee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    https://www.davx5.com/

    You might still have to use a gmail account for this though, depending on if your email works with it.

    There’s also Nextcloud which would be self hosted.

    And the extremely low tech solution of just having them offline in a foss contacts app and exporting backups from that app to your storage in case you lose them.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      And the extremely low tech solution of just having them offline in a foss contacts app and exporting backups from that app to your storage in case you lose them.

      that’s not a good solution because a lot of apps will be able to read them. It’s not always possible to decide for yourself what apps you have, sometimes more powerful people are going to make you use one that you don’t trust.

      • Garibaldee@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        in a foss contacts app

        I said in a foss one, I don’t think the foss developers are conspiring to get rid of your contacts, maybe for apple you might have to hope the developer doesn’t get burnt out, but the android foss community is pretty robust, but if you’re that paranoid just put them in a txt file or a spreadsheet.

        • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          5 months ago

          that’s not what I meant. but that when you export the contacts, that happens to shared storage, that other apps can see

              • Garibaldee@lemm.eeEnglish
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                5 months ago

                I would recommend not downloading any app that isn’t open source that has that permission enabled to begin with.

                • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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                  5 months ago

                  same opinion here. but sometimes it’s not a choice. Especially on a company phone, but also on a personal one. Don’t forget either that not everyone here did/can degoogle their phone.

  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    I got Nextcloud on Hetzner. Technically, Hetzner can see the contacts stored on their servers, but I trust them enough, and everything is open source.

    You can also self-host Nextcloud.

    • 211@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      Same. Hetzner has a solid business in hosting, they don’t make their money from mining my data. They’d hand it over for a lawful request, but the data is not -that- secret and thus possible false accusations aren’t really an issue.

      I’ve barely hosted anything and those must have leaked like a sieve. Trusting Hetzner way more.

  • perfectly_boiled_pizza@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I export my contacts as a file and copy it to my pc, an external HDD and several cloud providers. Anything I store in the cloud is encrypted with Rclone first. There is a nice client available for Android. I don’t pay for cloud storage so I only use the free tiers.

    I guess this is only practical if you rarely make changes to your contacts.

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        5 months ago

        forget NixOS. I understand that for seasoned users it might be a cool thing, but as I see you may be a beginner, and you totally don’t need that.

        docker is solid advice though. use that and a reverse proxy, like nginx or apache (they are complete web servers with revproxy capabilities), and put different services on different subdomains of the machine’s hostname (like api.etesync.mypc.lan, and web.etesync.mypc.lan). that way you basically run multiple services with the same IP and port, and the reverse proxy separates the different traffic of services by looking at the subdomain.

        if I’m right that you’re a beginner, take your time, you’re not in a rush. it will work out, but you’re learning, it might take some patience here and there

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      what would you do without selfhosting?

      I do that for myself, but I can’t recommend that to 99% of people around me, and I can’t let them into my system either.

      I have seen etesync, but that requires a subscription.
      was thinking of something with syncthing, but that has difficulties too (missing tools mostly), especially that you would have to keep the contacts file at a place where nearly any app can read it.

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    fossify contacts lets you import and export your contacts at anytime to and from a simple file

        • agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          I use the same etesync clients but link them to your own server, called etebase. There are a couple setup examples in the code, but if you’d like, I can share my docker/podman compose stack.

          I haven’t set up the web UI to directly access items since I’m fine just using clients to sync and access items, so I haven’t looked into the web UI.

          • agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml
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            5 months ago

            I briefly looked into the web client, and I don’t think it’s worth trying to self-host. There isn’t a docker image and the latest release on github is from 2020. If you need a web UI, I’d recommend using something else.

  • thomask@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    If you are feeling ambitious and want to go “serverless”, try out DecSync and a compatible android app for contact sync. This represents all your contacts as files on disk in a way that avoids conflicts, and you can use SyncThing to keep your devices in sync 100% peer to peer. Unfortunately on your desktop you’ll probably have to use something like radicale on localhost and the plugin to convert it into CardDAV for your regular email client to understand.