[bhasinanant]

What I do want to understand is, why would anyone use this instead of NextCloud, for example. I'm all for having local setups though, as a general policy. It's just that from what I know, the difference in feature sets is just too huge right now.

[Gigachad]

Sandstorm was like an App Store for any server app. You could install nextcloud with it.

Was a pretty good idea but there wasn’t any sustainable business model/funding and it was also pre docker era which would have made things more secure/containerised and easier to maintain.

[ocdtrekkie]

You could not install Nextcloud on Sandstorm. Sandstorm has an app that used to work with Nextcloud's mobile app, but Nextcloud makes a very poor Sandstorm app because it is a monolith, instead of being granular.

(Personally I also find Nextcloud incredibly sluggish, but it is quite popular so it must work better for others.)