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[Question] Family oriented social network that is local only (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey selfhosters,

I'm looking for some help finding a selfhosted local only social network with mobile apps (for the less tech savvy).

Basically my family lives all over the place and we want an easy way to share photos of our children and family events with comments and engagement. We are privacy minded and don't want pictures of our kids drifting over a social network. I'm struggling to find any software that is always local only and private.

Somethings I have seen that seem promising but not quite right:

Secure Scuttlebutt Apps
Mastodon +Hometown
Immich
Just a plane old blog

Hometown is almost perfect but it still allows for federation and that will be hard to teach some of my family about. Immich looks great! But doesn't have anyway to engage nor feed.

Hopefully someone out there knows of something. Ideally it would have an interface like social media without the intent to reach the wider world outside of my family.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe https://www.kombuchaprivacy.com/circles/ suits your needs. It's cool but not widespread.

Pixelfed is a nice social photo sharing service as others have already said

I'd highly suggest using a service like immich or nextcloud or any other photo software to share images. Use it in combination of a chat app like matrix/element/schildichat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm leaning towards Immich at the moment if I can't configure pixelfed to my liking. On the chat side of things that is sort of what we do now but I was wanting something a bit more asynchronous. With chat we can send photos, but what we were wanting is somewhere to just post stuff and other family can view it on their own time or go back and see a previous post. With chat it's a bit too ephemeral for the grandmas and grandpas...they keep asking us to send the same photos because they cant find it in the chat history :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'd go with immich