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Best self hosted photo manager for multi user (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My wife is using Google Photos, and I've been using Photoprism for a few months. I just had a baby, and I access to download the pictures that my wife takes. I'm not too sure of what I want. I guess I want two separate libraries, but I want to be able to view her pictures easily and add them into my library. I believe if I spin up a second photoprism instance, I'd have to download her pictures individually and reupload them into my instance.

What do any of you do? Do you even host photo storage for your family?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you want it federated or no? If you want it federated, go for Pixelfed. If not, check out Immich.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pixelfeds album feature is terrible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I had no idea. I was thinking of standing an instance up to explore it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was looking for something better than sharing pictures four at a time on Mastodon and checked out Pixelfed. I don't understand it at all. It's like the system is designed around sharing individual pictures. Even when an instance allows sharing a few pictures at once, other users will only see the first picture because multiple pictures is obviously an afterthought for the UI. Maybe it's because I am too old and I want Flickr instead of Instagram. I'm still posting pictures up to four at a time on Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah exactly, I want federated flick, not Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you run pixelfed without federation?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah you can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good question. I am not really certain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But then it's Instagram without users. Maybe pointless unless some specific edge cases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Pixelfed for image storage, or is it more like Instagram?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's probably more like instagram.