Does anyone know why there’s no desire to see a working standard (protocol) for calendar/tasks?

It’s clear that CalDAV doesn’t function consistently across devices (and does seem to be dying as a standard). If you work across different devices/OS it’s virtually impossible to get things set up seamlessly. Companies and developers of task apps seem happy to create silos and not look at interoperability.

If you want to self-host, it’s too hard to do this and you really are limited to a tiny number of options.

    • Radicale hosts my calendars and contacts
    • zero-hassle setup in Thunderbird for both of those things
    • DAVx on Android works seamlessly for calendar and contacts Sync
    • Fossify calendar to view, edit calendar
    • default contact app for contacts
    • Infcloud as a web frontend for Radicale. Not pretty, but absolutely functional (and I hardly ever need it thanks to Android calendar app / Thunderbird)

    Haven’t tried todo lists yet, but I would imagine they are similarly hassle-free.

    The only annoyance I have is that DAVx is required at all, but I’d suspect that’s an Android/Google issue? IDK.

    But anyways, this setup works flawlessly for me.