Immich is the only viable alternative, IMO.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Problem is, self hosted solutions require an investment into dedicated software. And even still, it doesn't work that well. As I said, my Synology Photos will load photos after a while, but videos is a whole different story. And it's not the internet connection in my case
Typically the point of de-googling is to get independent. If you just go to another SaaS solution, you trade one dependency for another dependency. They can lock you out from one day to the next, increase their prices, change their terms of service, etc.
Also if one of the reasons to turn your back to Google is that they should no longer have access to your data, then look up what the SaaS provider you are turning to is hosting with. Chances are high they are using Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. So your data still ends up on machines of the big three.
I disagree. The point of de-googling can be to get more independent, yes. But it can also be to get away from the monopoly and power of google and the other large internet companies. I cannot see how many people will start self-hosting in the near future, this is a viable solution only to tech-savy people. Instead, we should also look for other, more convenient ways to change how the internet is organized. Someone already mentioned ente as an alternative to google photos. Ente is as far as I can tell a privacy-respecting company. By using services like this or also kagi, people are contributing as well to another type of internet. We can either have our own hardware like you and selfhost. Or we pay others for their services, but with money not with our data. In general we certainly need a diversification of the internet.
I recently tried pikapods (https://www.pikapods.com/), they provide a pretty easy and stable way to run software like immich. The prices are reasonable as well, I’d say.
Is it FOSS? What’s the MIT license?
It's as FOSS as it can be. MIT is one of the most liberal licenses.
Ente is another option that I have been using for almost 2 years now. It's end-to-end encrypted and open source with an app on F-Droid. There have been a lot of updates over the last year that have significantly improved the experience using the app.
Same. Quality app. Lots of constant improvements. Don't miss google photos at all.
I tried to get the self host option stood up but couldn't get it to work. The company is new enough that I'm not comfortable letting them host it at the moment. So I'm running Immich and it's been great.
Is there any information on the company? I found a brief LinkedIn but nothing else: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stingle
I never thought about it this way (what's under the hood).
Might be better than giving unencrypted data directly to Google but its still not a perfect solution
Wow I'm really interested in this as well, hope is as good as it's looks! Thank you!