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I'm currently using a Nextcloud instance hosted by a volunteer run non profit. 12โ‚ฌ per account per year, I have one for me and my girlfriend.

However, calendar sharing is limited to people on the users on that Nextcloud instance, which is a bit limiting.

Do you have alternatives that allow federated calendar sharing?

https://calendar.online/ seems promising and is German, has anyone used them before?

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[โ€“] Vlado@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you have some specific features that are โ€œmust haveโ€ for you? Iโ€™m using the calendar from Proton (considering that Iโ€™m using their services as a bundle for mail+drive, I thought โ€œwhy notโ€). So far I havenโ€™t found any issues with that, but Iโ€™m not a โ€œcalendar heavyโ€ user.

My only minor gripe is, that their ipadOS application is just a port from the iOS, not a full-fledged tablet version.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My main use case is to share with calendar availability with some close friends (easier to make plans when we can at least roughly see when everyone is available). In Nextcloud it's only possible with other users of your Nextcloud server, there is no federation.

The Github issue is still open: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/1440

[โ€“] Vlado@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the mentioned Proton calendar, you can share your calendars, but NOT when using the free plan.

So I would say - if youโ€™re already using Proton โ€œsuiteโ€, you can give it a go. But if you donโ€™t then I donโ€™t think it makes sense to pay just for their calendar feature. Itโ€™s pretty basic (which is sufficient for me, but not for everyone)

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I see, thanks!

[โ€“] Tundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Download and create a calendar on: https://anytype.io/

And then you can share it for collaboration. Theres a bit of a learning curve but you can use it for alot more rhan calender and it works very well

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Interesting, I see they are based in Switzerland https://anytype.io/faq

The free tier looks nice https://doc.anytype.io/anytype-docs/memberships/monetization

[โ€“] TacticalCheddar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Tuta Calendar from Tutanota.

[โ€“] circledot@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

I use a 1 Euro Ionos Server with Baikal. It's got enough recourses for hosting a RSS solution as well.

[โ€“] mfuga 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use calendar.online and it worked very good for my purposes, nice intuitive UI

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I think I'm really going to give it a try, it looks promising!

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Solf-hosted Baikal. Works like a charm.

[โ€“] IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your comment made me start to think about self-hosting. What hardware are you using?

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm running it on a "normal" server, which hosts many VMs. Baikal being one of them. But it would also run on any potato or a raspy. It's not very demanding. Also was simple to set up.

[โ€“] IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to look look into installing mrchromebox on my old Chromebook and using that. Should work right?

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dunno the specifics of the chromebook or mrchromebook (i assume some linux?), but I'd take a wild guess with: YEAH. But when working it syncs nicely with e.g. thunderbird or any android-calendar (via davx5 foss) or basically any DAV-able app. If it's just for at-home, then you don't need much maintenance, if it shall be reachable from the outside, it should be a bit more hardened and maintained, obviously.

[โ€“] IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah basically Linux server software for chromebook. What do you mean with maintenance?

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

keeping the box up2date, and baikal itself. As said, if it's reachable from the outside that should be mandatory unless you don't care :)

Ah got it, thanks!

[โ€“] supermurs@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you share your availability with other people?

[โ€“] supermurs@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suppose so, but I haven't tried that feature myself, so I'm not completely sure.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Ok, thanks!

[โ€“] original_g@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For those who prefer apps, there's OurCal, developed by an English company. I've just started using it.

Ourcal

The application looks quite ergonomic.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

Is it compatible with open calendar formats? The webpage shows Google, Outlook and Apple, obviously we are trying to avoid those at the moment ๐Ÿ˜„

Also, you might want to check your language settings, your comment was taggued as French, some people might not see it. !languagesettings@lemmy.zip can help, I think there is also something at !support@jlai.lu

[โ€“] original_g@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you !

Yes, you can link the classic American calendars, but you can also use the calendar provided by the app, which is not linked to these services.

As for the language problem, I'll look into it, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm French in a French Instance ? I'm new to Lemmy.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, good to know, maybe I'll give it a try!

I found the post, it should be more clear, feel free to comment there too: https://jlai.lu/post/16302866

If you don't see any comments in that post when being logged in, you can read the content from here: https://lemmy.ca/post/40385955

[โ€“] original_g@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying with "Auto" language setting, I hope it's better.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still French, but it's fine for now. If one day you encounter a community without any posts while there should be some, remember to try to update them again

[โ€“] original_g@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, it's important if I want to contribute to the BuyFromEU community. I'm going to investigate further !

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, now it seems good, your comment was not tagged !

[โ€“] Tekktical@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use Fossify calendar. It works really well until now!

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Tekktical@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 months ago

I am subscribed to my gf's google calendar, but unfortunately I cannot share mine with her.