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Google photos alternatives? (feddit.uk)
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What are some google photos alternatives? I'm aware of Ente (not European), crypt.ee and zeitkapsl (saw someone mention it uses google apis). Also don't fancy going down the self-hosting route for the moment.

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[โ€“] trapdoor@feddit.org 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

Boomer me: get a 10TB drive and leave cloud services out of it

Otherwise Filen

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I used Google photos just to have my pictures and videos automatically uploaded from my phone when I took them and to the cloud, with the added perk that they could be viewed and shared online if I felt like it. I'm not sure if there's anything more to it?

If not, I recomend Nextcloud managed by some hosting provider. Hetzner is German and probably the cheapest option out there. I use Murena from France, as I'm fine paying a little more because they develop my phone OS. It's still a lot cheaper for me than my Dropbox subscription was, and I couldn't be happier with how Nextcloud works.

The fact that it's the same apps and functionality between different providers also makes it easier to switch down the road if necessary, whereas other providers might try to lock you into their app ecosystems in order to make you stick with them even as they increase prices or make their services worse.

[โ€“] cile.sb@piefed.social 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Google Photos has a great search engine โ€“ I can look up โ€œdogโ€ and it will find all the photos with a dog in them, or search for a place and find all the shots from there. You can select a face in one photo, and it will find all the photos of that person.

The albums are awesome too, since you can share them so all invited people can add their own photos. Perfect for weddings, birthday parties, and events in general.

[โ€“] gjoel@programming.dev 7 points 4 hours ago

I'm self hosting Immich. I honestly get much better results from their search than I do from Google photos. It's not quite as mature, but it's definitely good enough!

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, the machine learning functionality is missing in Nextcloud as far as I'm aware, and I remember it being pretty cool when it rolled out in Google photos (though that's also why I deleted all my stuff from there - I wear a tin foil hat). Personally I'm waiting for a good open source photo management software to handle it locally (I remember seeing Shotwell was working on face recognition), but that's hardly a solution at all.

[โ€“] artiman@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm using nextcloud hosted by adminforge.de, with the nextcloud memories app on android, it has a limit of 2gb so it doesn't get abused, but if you email or message the owner they will give you more storage, they gave me 20gb. they also host ente photos and they are located in germany they host for free but also accept donations to keep the services running
Link to nextcloud: https://my.adminforge.de/
Link to Ente: https://erpel.cloud/

[โ€“] sloelk@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

why not the official nextcloud app? Is this a limit from adminforge?

I have a hosted nextcloud instance from hetzner.de for around 5โ‚ฌ/month with 2TB

[โ€“] artiman@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

the nextcloud memories app is a way better gallery app than nextcloud

[โ€“] neeeil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

Filen has photos support and is E2EE

[โ€“] Ash@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

kDrive - infomaniak - Swiss.

[โ€“] mikedd@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I used Jottacloud in 2016-2017 and loved it. A couple of months ago I started using Proton which has photos backup+cloud just like Jottacloud but more recently I started self hosting Immich and I love it!

[โ€“] arrrse@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

1st of all, if i would use cloud services for my photos/videos, i wouldn't and just get sd cards so I would actually have every single one on me physically. When one fills up, get another one and archive the last one with from - to dates

But my question is, what alternatives for files on the phone? My Nokia uses google photos / files and id like to change it. If possible an app that has nothing to do with internet

[โ€“] bart@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

If it is storage you are looking for; Drime. Their mobile app will be updated later this month to allow for photo sync

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I've seen good feedback about Jottacloud.

I personally use Ente as there is E2EE, waiting for a European entity to start their own service with the Ente software.

[โ€“] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Are you familiar with alternativeto.net? One of the most useful sites out there.

[โ€“] whulum@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Proton drive or pcloud are two european options. Also E2E

[โ€“] brainscan@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I use proton drive, it works. I`m missing a proton drive on linux :(

[โ€“] ellen@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I run it on linux? You can download it from their website..

Only thing for me is that proton doesn't support photo albums, so waiting for that before I can cancel my MS onedrive

[โ€“] brainscan@piefed.social 1 points 45 minutes ago

There is no drive for linux, I`m checking it weekly :)