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Use Nextcloud then, with autoupload enabled on your phone. You can view them online

I agree with that. The diversity of projects and clients is good, but if people are “afraid” of and don’t come to use open-source projects, it’s also because there are too many of them. Instead of creating something new to solve problems, it would be better to fix the existing ones. I’m thinking for example of a new UI for Conversations, which works very well, but is not aesthetically appealing.

You should not use mastodon.social “because it is the largest instance”. The Fediverse was not designed to “join the largest instance”. Instead, go to https://instances.social/ and find something that meets your criteria :)