I’m starting my degoogling journey (mostly looking into the various options at hand) and I was wondering what hood alternatives to Goohle Photos is there? I’m specifically wondering about a service that would double both as a cloud storage and a gallery with a timeline and such. But currently it’s only cloud storage backup (or Instagtam-likes, which is bot something I want) as far as I can tell?

  •  Father_Redbeard   ( @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ) 
    8•1 year ago

    Immich is the best I’ve found. Has native mobile apps that can auto upload pics/videos and you can use their CLI utility to bulk import large libraries if you want. Very active development too.

    Edit: sorry, didn’t see the cloud storage requirement. Immich is purely a photo hosting/upload service.

  •  Matt   ( @Matt@lemdro.id ) English
    5•1 year ago

    I have been using ente for around two years now and it has been working well. It’s not perfect, but has been improving quickly. Your photos are end-to-end encrypted so you are the only one who can access them. The app is also open source and available on F-Droid which is awesome. The prices aren’t the best, but privacy isn’t free. You either need to pay for it, or put the time and effort into hosting it yourself like Immich or Nextcloud. Ente does have a 1 year free trial with 1GB of storage to test it out.

    Edit: After rereading your post, I saw you wanted general cloud storage as well. Maybe give Filen a try. It is also end-to-end encrypted and open source. It doesn’t have any photo specific features like albums since it is a generic cloud storage service, but it does have a photos tab to view your uploaded photos.

    •  illi   ( @illi@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      This looks like it fits what I was lookig for the most, will look into it! Prices are a bit steeper than what I would like but might be worth it. Important thing is there is the free tier to test it out.

      I was not expecting any free service like that and frankly, would prefer something I can pay for. Makes it more likely I’m a customer, not a product. Thanks!

    •  illi   ( @illi@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      This is the one I’ve found, but was not sure about setting up a NAS. On the other hand, the investment might return when comparing to a monthly payment. I mostlynposted to know other options.

      Thanks though, it is good to have it mentioned here for sure.

  •  marv99   ( @marv99@feddit.de ) 
    3•1 year ago

    For the cloud storage part I can tell that Nextcloud serves the purpose fine.

    I have configured our Android devices with Nextcloud app to upload new images directly into the my-nextcloud-user/files/SofortUpload folder. It has a structure /SofortUpload/ImageFolder/year/months/images, so for example /SofortUpload/Camera/2023/08/IMG_20230803_174100.jpg

    (“Sofort” is German for “immediate”)

    This auto-upload has been configured and happens (in our cases) also for the mobile device folders Pictures, Screenshots, Stickers, Telegram and Wallpaper.

    For the timeline and viewing part I would also take suggestions, as having not yet found a good solution.

  •  Xusontha   ( @xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink ) 
    3•1 year ago

    I use immich, it works the best out of anything I’ve tried (including nextcloud which randomly didn’t upload pictures for some reason)

    If you don’t wanna self host it, there are some services which will host it (and other projects) for you (the only one I can remember is pikapods.com, never used them though)