Self-hosting Photo Alternatives

Hello everyone!

I'm currently looking to self host some photos to get my girlfriend off of Google Photos. I'm wondering what has been good in your experience.

I never thought about self-hosting the before but a LTT video (I'm sorry) popped up in my feed and I got curious.

I looked into Ente.io and PhotoSync so far but unsure if there are any better options. Also saw that LibrePhotos exist but I haven't looked into it yet.

What are you using? Have you had any issues? Missing features etc.?

WhyAUsername_1 ,

I-fucking-mmich!

Smk ,

Immich all the way my dude.

k4j8 ,

Definitely check this summary out: https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/. Everyone's use case and priorities will be a little different, but I'd vote for Immich as a Google Photos replacement that looks nice and is very easy to use. I was awestruck by the facial and object recognition, which wasn't even a feature I particularly cared about.

Kekin ,
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I use Photoprism, mainly because it seems stable so far, and it's good enough for my needs

czardestructo ,
@czardestructo@lemmy.world avatar

Ditto, though I'm getting more and more resentful by the day at the lack of multi user support. I'm not going to donate to them again.

DeltaTangoLima ,
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Yeah, this is why I jumped ship to Immich last year. I was donating to PP, with the understanding that donating users would get access to multi-user features when they happened.

Then they put them behind a paid recurring subscription. For self-hosted users. That move broke all the trust with me.

oldfart ,

They fucking what? I need to get off the couch and cancel my support too

DeltaTangoLima ,
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Yep - they introduced paid subscription tiers and put multi-user support into those:
https://www.photoprism.app/editions#compare

JurassicPork ,

Same here, Been using photoprism past few years also, loving it so far!! Few quirks but constantly being worked on

jelloeater85 ,
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Same, just use FolderSync to get photos to it. Works like a cham.

Yoruio ,

+1 to immich

However, because of the fast dev cycle, it has a lot of breaking changes, and needs regular maintenance (most notably for me, postgres docker changes. Especially if you are not giving it it's own postgres instance and using their provided docker compose.)

You could stay pegged to a single version, but the mobile app also doesn't have full backwards compatibility with server versions, which results in a slew of other problems (how do I do a fresh install of an older app version on a new device?)

But if you are willing to keep up and perform semi-regular maintenance, immich is great, and the rapid dev cycle means more new features faster!

MangoPenguin ,
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Luckily all of the changes so far have been super easy and quick, they're very good about posting detailed info on what to change.

skeezix ,

Can you make immich so that when you click on the map, you get a grid of relevant photos rather than full size swipe?

Can you make immich not show the stupid white lines around every country?

Tywele ,
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Immich is by far the best and most convenient.

jws_shadotak ,

i m m i c h

I love this app.

Kidplayer_666 ,

Immich! Am still testing it, but it seems to have most features I need, like an iOS client with automatic backups and even server side face recognition ( your server naturally)

Shadow ,
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

Immich

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