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by m12k 2418 days ago
I didn't know NextCloud was P2P (I thought it was just based on a central server with a bunch of clients) - what's the P2P part?
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You can share content with users of other instances, or import content that is being shared with you into your own account. This is federation, but still quite limited.

Example: I can share a folder from I@myserver.org with you@yourserver.net

Syncthing is equivalent to the file-sync portion of Nextcloud and really is p2p FWIW. Been happy enough to replace my Onedrive subscription and once set up, just works.
It's not peer-to-peer, but you can share files between Nextcloud instances.