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You can use filen.io, which I like. It's based in Germany and GDPR compliant.
Their app is on github, so you could use obtainium to manage it: https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-mobile/releases/tag/v3.0.25
+1 for Filen. I use it for its E2EE.
I also use infomaniak's Kdrive (Swiss-made) with their 'KSuite' offer, for everyday cloud storage. It's cheap for 1To (more available, if needed). I don't think they're open source. More info: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite
I like filen too. I don't know if they still do it but you used to be able to buy lifetime plans and stack them, so I picked up 300Gb of storage without a recurring subscription by just buying a plan every time there was a sale/Black Friday thing.
Ipfs or possibly arweave
PeerGOS is the best there is. Encrypted, self-hostable (FOSS of course), federated, peer-to-peer features, and its own app ecosystem. I consider it the crown jewel of federated technologies along with XMPP, Delta Chat, and Peertube
Nextcloud's encryption... good luck even getting it to work lol. Might as well automatically zip and password lock stuff instead oof
Please support the devs I have found nothing like it anywhere!! (Currently their own offerings are inefficient compared to other datacenters but I buy it basically just to keep the lights on.)
HQ is where ?
I beg your pardon waldo?
Is HQ located in a 5 eyes country ?
Yeah I'm pretty sure it is, but you can run it yourself. I do not recall if it has been audited either
Syncthing
CopyParty https://github.com/9001/copyparty + PartyUp https://f-droid.org/packages/me.ocv.partyup/ (upload only, not sync)
Could try https://f-droid.org/packages/com.phpbg.easysync/ for sync proper.
More WebDAV Android client options https://github.com/fstanis/awesome-webdav#android but anyway my suggestion is to rely on a protocol, not an app.
Selfhost Nextcloud.
I selfhost NextCloud, and I haven't had any problems at all... and it's between windows, android and linux...
Self host filebrowser quantum! Small, light and easy to configure.
It is currently in beta, but it is on the cusp of a stable release.
I'm using an anon Dropbox account service through Cryptomator. Cryotomator is a really strong encryption cloud storage app. It just uses your Dropbox account to upload it. Cryotomator might be open-source but dropbox definitely isn't. So sorta?
Try koofr
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