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Alternative to Google Photos (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org
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So I'm looking to disconnect myself from Google and their tracking (as much as possible) and I was thinking about installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. I mostly use my phone for Lemmy, Signal, NewPipe and taking photos. The last one is my biggest bother at the moment. The Google Photos environment is so convenient - I take a photo, it uploads it to my Google Photos collection, and after a while, it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup. Is there a functionality like this disconnected from Google that I would be able to implement on my GrapheneOS phone? I'm looking to invest in the Proton environment (mainly Mail and Drive) so I could use that for storage. Cheers

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[-] GrumpyRobot@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

If you can setup a small server (nothing fancy, an old refurbed office PC does just fine) you can setup NextCloud. I use it for a Google Drive/Photos replacement. Doesn't have as many nice features, but it works if al you want is archiving.

You can also check out the Self-Hosted Git Guide, there is a whole section for Photo/Video management. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#photo-and-video-galleries

[-] Zoop@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Syncthing is another good option. I've never used NextCloud, though, so I'm not sure which is better.

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Syncthing is great if you wanna to sync everything inside a folder, i've used in the past to backup savefiles of drm free games, but for photos nextcloud is a better option since work almost the same as google photos auto finding the folder with images and asking kf you wanna to sync them instead of doing manually

[-] CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there a capability of having stuff on the cloud, but not locally, but they will still be accessible on the phone given the computer/server is on and that I'm online on my phone.

EDIT: See if I had a half decent computer, but with a decent storage (let's say 1tb) and I had on all time - could I potentially use it as my own self hosted cloud?

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

To your edit:

Yes.

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, i did with my old pc, i used zero tier one to connect with it from outside my wifi, sadly a storm came while i was at work and it fried the motherboard

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