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I am trying to slowly peel away from Google and my next task is Google Calendar. I currently have a couple shared calendars with other people and I'm not going to be able to break them free from Google quite yet. I have a next cloud server I was hoping to set up to be my primary source but I need to be able to interact with the shared calendars as well. Can I create a group calendar and have other persons, Google Calendar sync to it?

I'm not married to Next Cloud. It was just what I have available. I can do a different setup if that would work better.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

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[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, all the calendar solutions seem to be pretty terrible in one way or another. Your NextCloud server along with DAVx⁵ on Android is the most functional private alternative, IMO.

The setup still sometimes has some of the same issues that all calendars seem to have (even Google's and Apple's): occasional sync issues, or old deleted appointments that mysteriously show up again, or calendars duplicating themselves.

I don't know why calendaring seems to be one of those things that just never really got done well, it seems like it should be a solved problem by now.