How to change the email address used in Nextcloud

Go into your personal info from settings in the upper right hand corner within Nextcloud and add an email address. Tell me via Talk to update your main address. While you are in there, check the other settings such as notifications.

Why you occasionally get emails from Nextcloud saying your email changed

Every time I upgrade our Nextcloud on Ravergram the script sets your email back to your @ravergram.club account. I then need to change it manually to the email address I have on record for you. such as notifications area to ensure you only get the notifications you want.

What? I never got any emails!

If you do not recall seeing any emails from Nextcloud delivered by mail@peoplever.se, they are probably going to your spam folder. I have done everything right to setup the peoplever.se mail server, but some big adtech companies some of you use for email still dumps it into spam.

How you can ensure you receive emails in future

If you send an email to mail@peoplever.se, that may fix it. Doing that should also help establish the mail server's reputation with your mail provider and will be appreciated! You might still need to check your spam folder and mark it as not spam. I am sorry but how these companies decide what should go into spam is a black box and out of my control.

Some of what you can do with this email functionality

• If you want to share a file or something else in your Nextcloud, you can simply type an email address in the share dialog and a link will be sent to recipient by email. The number of other share options is amazing if you have not already noticed.
• If you want to allow people to book a private video conference call on your calendar, the person who books it will get an email for confirmation. You can create this appointment booking link from within the calendar app. https://ravergram.club/nextcloud/apps/calendar/ You can see the option on my homepage https://karlrockwell.com
• Setup any kind of notification you want in your settings to go to your email.

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This is a private server for friends and family. People are not products here. These services are 100% organic and free as in freedom. I provide everything at no cost to members. They are free of surveillance, advertising, blockchain, AI, and government or corporate access or influence. None of the services lock people in. Members can easily move accounts to another server of their own or someone they trust more.

This is what the future decentralized internet managed by communities instead of governments and corporations can look like.

Why am I providing these services?

I use all these services myself instead of Goopple and government controlled megatech. I have a little more technical aptitude than most of my friends and family. The only thing I get in return is the knowledge that those I love are not being abused.

I will document here what is available as it changes. Check back here when you are curious about a new service/tile that appears in Ravergram.club portal to understand how to use it. If it is not documented, it is likely still a work in progress. Tell me if you see an app or service you would like. The ways to contact me are here.

If I gave you an account on this server, change your password and set your forwarding email address. You change them from the main portal page by clicking the 'Edit my Profile' link in the top left area of the portal.

This password will be the same for many services on this server including Nextcloud, email, and XMPP chat. You are responsible for maintaining your strong unique password to your private content and keeping it in your password manager. You can setup MFA (Multi factor Authentication) on some services such as Nextcloud. If you lose or forget your password, I can reset it for you.

The forwarding email address you set will be your email address in Nextcloud used whenever you share something by email feature, and the address to which notifications will come.

If you do not have a full account, you can use the services under the category available for everybody.

This is your quick guide to all functions available on this server. These are generally free of censorship and surveillance from governments and corporations. They generally have more functionality than the big tech similar apps.

Get all the news you want

Use FreshRSS.

Social Media

Use Mastodon or PieFed (Similar to X and Reddit).

Events

Use Mobilizon.

Save articles to read later or share

Use Readeck or Nextcloud Bookmarks. Archive full pages or sites with Archivebox.

Collect/watch/read/listen to media

Use Jellyfin and/or Nextcloud.

Backup, sync, and share any files

Use Nextcloud, or Send.

Office suite of productivity tools

Use Nextcloud, Grist, or Ethercalc.

Calendar, appointments, address book, notes, forms, and polls

Use Nextcloud.

Track finances, expenses, projects, tasks, location and maps

Use Nextcloud.

Privately communicate

Use Simplex, XMPP, Talk, or Private Bin. More information.

Password Manager

Use Vaultwarden/Bitwarden or Nextcloud passwords. More information about credential management

Search

Use SearXNG to anonymously find what you want from many engines.

Email

Use Nextcloud mail client with your existing email accounts. Contact me if you want a new private email account.

Mantain your own websites

Create pages or collectives in Nextcloud. Create a page of your links with Linkstack. Ask me to setup your own complete website.

Fun and Games

Create Memes.

Play Hextris.

All the software provided is FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) including the Yunohost hosting platform. If you like the services, you can donate to projects who develop and maintain the software. I don't want anything. It is a labor of love for me.

Although some of the services are available for anyone to use, some are only available to those with an account. I have invited only a small number of people to use all the services. I will help you setup your own server if you want to do that for your community.

If people abuse the services, I may close their accounts. If someone never logs on, I will eventually close or delete the account. 

General Requests

You can store and share just about anything in Nextcloud. The big internet companies(Google, MS, Meta, Apple..) act as gatekeepers and will often scan links that end up on their servers. They can be hostile to independent self hosters like us. They often scare people by telling them the link is unsafe or even ban our domain completely from their services. Please be a little careful when sharing to prevent this from screwing all of us on the server by following these recommendations:

• Avoid posting share links directly on censorious big tech platforms such as Youtube comments, Facebook posts.. if the content is disfavored by those companies or the government.

• If you share links over email, encrypt your email or use something like https://burnernote.com/ or https://ravergram.club/bin.

• SMS is also monitored and censored. Encrypted messages on Simplex, Talk, XMPP, Matrix, and Signal avoid this scanning and are private.

I keep these services secure and running well because I heavily rely on them. I would be the most impacted if anything broke down.

I have a hybrid setup with most services running out of my house and some hosted on a VPS (virtual Private Server) at Hetzner. This rarely happens, but if power or internet goes down at the house, services running from my house will be offline during such time. Sometimes I need to do maintenance and reboot the server which can cause a brief outage.

I have a 3/2/1 backup strategy done nightly. I also have an extra backup server and hard drives available if any hardware fails. Although unlikely, if some disaster happens to the house or me, services could be offline indefinitely. I recommend that you have local backup of any critical data you need. For example, if you use Nextcloud, sync files to your PC or handset with the Nextcloud app.

Unlike corporate platforms, these services are free and do not lock you in. With the inbuilt tools, you can rather easily migrate most accounts and data to another instance if/when desired. The steps are different depending on the service, and I will help you.

I cannot guarantee all of these services will be maintained forever but neither can corporations promise the same. https://killedbygoogle.com/ In my experience, these free projects running on our server are more durable, but sometimes things happen beyond my control.

Everybody in the US needs to understand the simple third party doctrine, and how the government collects dirt on you (video) from big tech companies and data brokers. The evidence is clear, and no laws will probably ever meaningfully protect you. We are on our own. You were warned. ;) 

I provide these services to those I care most about. I will never willingly share or sell any data on this server, and it will be extremely difficult to force me to do otherwise.

You are not a product here. Ravergram services are free of surveillance, advertising, and blockchain. There is no GACC (Government, AI, Corporate Control).

As with any services you use on any server that you do not control, you must trust the system administrator. Any system administrator can reset passwords, delete accounts, and monitor much. Data you have on Ravergram can only be accessed by you and potentially the server administrator(me). Data you put on a corporate server can and generally is collected by that corporation and the government and shared with data brokers. The business model of many big internet companies is based on harvesting, refining and selling data for profit, manipulation, and control.

I have no interest, time, or value in monitoring your activity. Most of the data is encrypted on Ravergram. I would feel like a horrible person and couldn't live with myself if I did anything like that. I will do what is needed to keep services running well and your data protected and private. When using these services, you trust me rather than for profit mega corporations and tyrannical governments.

I can help you with security and privacy on the internet and IRL (In Real Life) if you ask me anything. These guides can also help you:

https://security-list.js.org/#/

https://privacy.do/

https://www.privacytools.io/