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Self hosted photo options for the family? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 hours ago by Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi all,

So recently my immediate family had expressed interest in getting some kind of photo share platform for us to share vacation photos more easily. We've done a Dropbox with extended family years ago, but that sucked to hard that it even managed to put my non-techy family off of doing that again.

So what are some ideas you all can think of? I've seen Immich mentioned around here before, but I've honestly never set up even a real homelab or sever before, so that's a bit daunting. Their google photos-esque UI is a bit plus as everyone but me uses that.

It wouldn't need to be open to the internet, local WiFi would work as well really just need to be able to share photos between our phones more easily once we get back from a trip. I've got an older laptop with like 8GB RAM that I could run the server off of.

Sorry if this is really vague. I've just been given instructions to "find out what's out there" by my non-techy family and I figured you all here would have a better idea of my options. Thanks!

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Just use Immich. It's easy and apes Google Photos.

Ente is the other main option, but I never evaluated it because Immich worked so well.

[–] NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Just recently migrated from Ente to Immich. Immich is much nicer, more consistent, friendlier to self host, and less buggy in my experience so far.

[–] Wrongdoer2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

Immich doesn't have shared album option does it ?

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 3 points 31 minutes ago

You can share albums with other users, or even with a public link.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

Immich is the easiest self-hosted thing I've set up. It also might've been the first.

[–] univers3man@piefed.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I have to warn you about Immich on one item: large file upload. Immich does not have chunk uploading, so if you are backing up a large video and you lose internet, the upload has to start all over. I found this out when my phone was trying to upload a 4k video that was about 10GB.