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Hey, I'm wondering what everyone's solution is for self hosted "cloud" storage of photos? I've been running a PhotoPrism server on my Synology for a while but it's missing some features I'd like to have. While we've set up auto-uploading from different phones to the web server, I haven't found an easy way to share read-only access to the pictures or specific albums. There is an admin login, but no way (that I've found) to create multiple users with different permissions.

So SelfHosted lemmy, what's your solve for photo storage, sorting, and sharing?

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[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No need to use software when you ~~can write some small scripts, devise an ordering system and run Linux.~~ consign yourself to not ~~having any of the modern QoL features~~ being forced to buy/be locked into products everyone ~~enjoys~~ hates. ;)

Everything is a choice, for me, "one size fits somebody, hopefully, and the rest has to adapt" doesn't work at all. I started with MSX, then Atari ST, used a PC 1 game, went via OS/2 (BBS) to Linux in '94 and stayed there after a clash with Windows 95 during an internship. My current employer gave me an iPhone to use and after running rooted Android and Cyanogenmod/Lineage since 2012 I hate it with a passion, to restricted for me.

Some will be totally happy to dump all their photo's on photobucket, google photo's,... it just doesn't work for me, as for one, my photos come from DLSR, compacts, scanned analog photos and a few from the phone. I have 24y worth of photo's on local disk (229G), I make almost no photos with the phone and when I do I usually want to put them online for own reference pretty quickly. For me, with almost no photo's on the phone (max 10), this works like a charm. (and once I made a few scripts, it costs me less time then trying to get my photo's back from all those apps)

I suspect we're all a tad weary of companies offering 'free' storage for your data and then use it for other means or charge you when you want your data back. It's an option that works, but requires a tad more knowledge and time to setup. That free storage feels more like 'legal ransom ware' then anything else. When your not paying, you're the product being sold. (which doesn't guarantee that when you are paying you're not sold as well)

When you want something you either have to:

  1. find the perfect product
  2. adapt the product to make it perfect for you
  3. adapt yourself to make you perfect for the product
  4. create something yourself

The 1st is near impossible, 2nd costs time, sometimes to much, 3rd is most of the times a no-go here and that leaves 4. When you have the skills, 4 will become the option you use more and more. (Especially when you enjoy making your own solutions)

this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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