First, I am unable to host. My apartment wifi forbids it and I’m too poor to afford my own wifi.
Is there a good alternative to google docs? Preferably on the cloud, if not then that’s fine. I know LibreOffice writer exists but to my knowledge it lacks Doc’s document tab thing, which I make extensive use of, and cloud services. I’m trying to get off Google as much as I can, but the cloud hosted aspect of Docs is very useful, both for sharing links to documents quickly and for opening up a document on any of my 3 devices without having to sync or update the documents manually.
The various public Etherpad instances are good. There are some that don’t require login (good for sharing public notes, bad for private documents), and some that do (better for private documents, gives you user access controls i.e. who can modify or read the notes)
Framapad is one that needs a login, but there are plenty of other Etherpad instances.
Alternatively, I heard lots of people like Nextcloud Notes (you can use a public instance or use a VPS)