I'm tired of the Google Photos app constantly nagging me about backing up my photos in their cloud. Enough! Hey Lemmings, what photo gallery app do you use these days? (lemmy.world)

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[-] unrushed233@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago

For photo syncing, I use PhotoBackup

Thanks, but I wonder for how long this will continue to work, considering that the latest PhotoBackup build is from November of 2016 and it targets Android 4.1 (newer Android versions will probably require a higher version target). In the long term, I think that migrating to Immich or Ente is the better option. Both have official, well-maintained FOSS apps, that are available on F-Droid, and the backend services can be completely self-hosted.

Immich
- App
  - F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.alextran.immich/
  - GitHub: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
- Self-hosting: https://immich.app/docs/install/requirements
Ente
- App
  - F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.ente.photos.fdroid
  - GitHub: https://github.com/ente-io/ente
- Self-hosting: https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Android could break it, but I don't subscribe to the philosophy that an essentially bug-free, functioning piece of software needs constant updates to stay useful. If Android doesn't break it with API shenanigans, I'm perfectly happy to continue using it.

If Android does break it, all it is is a file syncing service. SyncThing could slot into the workflow with minor effort.

Modular systems rock. They have many advantages over all-in-one, monolithic systems; that they're harder for users to set up and use is almost the only way they're inferior.

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