PixelUnionJun 1
PixelUnion will from now on use Mastodon 🐘 as its social media platform. We believe it's important to support European alternatives 🇪🇺 and reduce our reliance on large American tech corporations 💻. And also, we like elephants more than tweeting birds 🐦.
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Show threadPaolo Amoroso

☝️ Please welcome @pixelunion on Mastodon!

The Google Photos alternative PixelUnion, a hosted Immich solution based in Europe, made good on another of their promises to address the issues I pointed out in my feedback. They added an RSS feed to their blog and now joined Mastodon. They're also planning a guide for migrating from Google Photos as I also suggested.

Feedback to Big Tech platforms is slightly less effective.

https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/114437689871614993

#GooglePhotos #immich #EuropeanAlternatives

Paolo Amoroso (@amoroso@oldbytes.space)

PixelUnion is a brilliant Google Photos alternative: a hosted Immich solution based in Europe. Love the name. But there's no Google Photos import tool (seriously?) and I emailed them asking to please provide such an option. I also recommended that they join Mastodon and add an RSS feed to their blog (seriously?). https://pixelunion.eu #GooglePhotos #immich #EuropeanAlternatives

OldBytes Space - Mastodon
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Show threadKalle KniiviläJun 5

@amoroso @pixelunion This looks like the best Google Photos alternative I have seen so far. I was going to complain about it being English only, but once you sign up the service is actually available in multiple languages.

The Immich app for Android also seems to work fine, and it was not too complicated to set up. Would be nice to have some kind of automated migration from Google photos though, I have quite a lot of stuff there at the moment...

Show threadPaolo AmorosoJun 5

@kallekn Not only is @pixelunion the best alternative to Google Photos, Immich provides many additional features Google users have been fruitlessly begging for since day one.

PixelUnion plans to eventually develop its own mobile app. They are also meaning to publish a migration guide using immich-go:

https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

It seems manageable. My friend @signaleleven used the tool to migrate to self-hosted Immich. All went well and everything is in place: photos, albums, and other data.

GitHub - simulot/immich-go: An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.

An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives. - simulot/immich-go

GitHub
Show threadKalle Kniivilä5d ago

@amoroso @pixelunion @signaleleven It looks fairly complicated for a non-tech person like me. It would be nice to have a simple migration tool for Google Photos – just push a button and move all pictures and albums...

Otherwise I will need to find a more tech-savvy person to do this for me, but this is not the ideal solution for the general public.

Show threadPaolo Amoroso5d ago

@kallekn Agreed. Using immich-go is acceptable to me but, for the majority of users, the vendors of Google alternatives should do more for easing the migration of data from Google.

@pixelunion @signaleleven

Show threadSignalEleven4d ago

@amoroso @kallekn @pixelunion
They should but... Takeout is really the minimum to pass compliance to GDPR et similia.
You *can* get your data out, but the fact it's difficult is hardly the fault of the alternatives.

That being said, the ability to ingest a takeout zip without a command line third party tool could be desirable.

Show threadPaolo Amoroso4d ago

@signaleleven Sure, some better dressing than the command line to ingesting Takeout archives is what I have in mind.

@kallekn @pixelunion