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Question for people who do #selfhosting - I'm looking for a #gallery / instagram -like app that is not pixelfed, easy to deploy and maintain into a self-hosted instance, and that allows me to store the images on a bucket. Ideally available as a docker image.

I have about 1.5G of instagram images I want to move to a self-hosted gallery, and I want to be able to just take a picture, and upload it to a post, like I do it with instagram. The picture should be uploaded to a bucket-type storage.

The application will be self-hosted on my own server and I don't want to spend time/energy with moderation.

Any suggestions?

Update: many mentions of Immich, which at this point doesn't support Object Storage - see https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/4445

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[Feature] object storage · Issue #4445 · immich-app/immich

Object storage support has been widely requested (#1683) and is something we're keen to support. The limitations imposed by object storage happen to be beneficial for data resilience and consistenc...

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TriploidTree 4d ago

@catzilla I started looking into next cloud for this, there are gallery app plug ins, and then I started looking at immich, and then I got distracted and nothing is still done

The Fediverse Cat 4d ago

@triploidtree I tried nextcloud and it does WAY too many things, I didn't like it at all. It was overwhelming and I had no reason to install it to use just one feature :(

But pretty much same boat.

TriploidTree 4d ago

@catzilla yeah, it's fine for running a business, but a lot if you only want a bit of it.

I'm still half looking for a flickr alternative, would be nice to have stuff available rather than in a zip file somewhere or on two phones ago

@triploidtree @catzilla I have been looking at a European tool called Zeitkapsl for photo sharing online. I don't see any issues with it, but I just haven't gotten around to setting things up

TriploidTree 4d ago

@bomkatt @catzilla *wanders off down the rabbit hole*

@triploidtree @catzilla I'll be curious to hear what you think. You may see something that I missed about it

Butterbee 4d ago

@catzilla Maybe something like Immich? https://immich.app/

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The Fediverse Cat 4d ago

@Butterbee No option for object storage, unfortunately

o/1MS\o ⌨️🐧 | #WeAreNatenom 4d ago

No personal experiences with, but I saw often https://immich.app/ called for pictures and #SelfHosting.

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Traumkämpfer 4d ago

@db_geek @catzilla That can definitely be recommended. Runs in Docker and aims to be a replacement for the old Google Photos.

Woozle Hypertwin 4d ago

@catzilla FWIW, I've found myself using MediaWiki with the MSUpload (I don't know why "MS", but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with M$oft) extension for picture galleries a lot -- lets you drag & drop pictures from a file-browser or app, and then will generate the tags to display them -- but it's probably not what you're looking for, and it's mainly easy for me because I'm super-familiar with MediaWiki.

TotalSpaceshipguy 4d ago

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Give @ente a try. You can self host it, it's very light on server resources, and the data is stored in buckets. Try their free 10Gb cloud service to see if you like the features before diving in, that might do what you need without the need to self host

The Fediverse Cat 4d ago

@TotalSpaceshipguy @ente Will check it out, thank you!

The Fediverse Cat 4d ago

@TotalSpaceshipguy @ente I have a question about Ente - does it offer a public-facing gallery for the pictures I upload?

The Fediverse Cat 4d ago

@TotalSpaceshipguy @ente Also, totally random since I saw the Ente about page: Ente in Portuguese means person / entity

Ente querido - Loved one

Great name, love that the word means different things in different languages!

TotalSpaceshipguy 4d ago

@catzilla @ente
Hi. Yes, you can share albums and create publicly visible links for those albums so that non ente folk can see the photos

The Fediverse Cat 4d ago

@TotalSpaceshipguy @ente Looks like sharing albums is not available for free hosted accounts so I'll have to spin up a self-hosted one to test it out. Thanks! I'll give it a try, seems easy enough for a test :)

For Pete's Sake!3d ago

@catzilla I use piwigo but that's probably not what you're looking for. It's a very simple (nay basic) photo gallery Web app that I Installed on my Web server and it ran pretty much put of the box.

I'm unsure but it sounds like you may want more fediverse/social media interaction than just a simple Web gallery??

The Fediverse Cat 3d ago

@PeteLittle i don’t want social media / fediverse, otherwise I would go with pixelfed.

I want to take a picture with my phone, post it to an online gallery and that’s it. I also would like to store those images on a bucket.

Surprisingly hard.

For Pete's Sake!3d ago

@catzilla that's pretty much the use case for piwigo. It's free, it's basic and its easy to set up.

If you go to my website http://alittleofnothing.co.uk you can see my piwigo test install. Only one test album set up but it's fairly basic.

Just another Piwigo gallery

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The Fediverse Cat 3d ago

@PeteLittle And you post pictures from your phone as you go around seeing things?

For Pete's Sake!3d ago

@catzilla not automatically no, but I do have an FTP client on my phone that is linked to the file store directly and for a few photos I can log into the admin page which provides a fairly standard image upload interface.

However this was mainly for my photos ftom my digital SLR Rather than snapshots from my phone. For better or for worse (the latter I suspect) I use Google Photos for that.

But for publicly available photo albums I wanted to share them my Web app does what i want.