Baral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Sep 27, 2025
The long march toward de-googlization continues. Poking around with #EntePhotos, evaluating it as a possible replacement for Google Photos, and so far I'm really quite impressed with it! Their free tier offers 10GB of end-to-end encrypted photo storage *without* ads! Any of y'all tried 'em yet?
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²

Alright yeah, I'm switching to #EntePhotos. It's pretty much a drop-in replacement for #GooglePhotos with a local-only machine learning model for face/object/scene recognition to enable image search. If you try it and like it too, referral code STORMDERGRAWR will get you 10GB extra storage!

#Ente

Oct 1, 2025 at 2:48amWeb
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Oct 1, 2025

Also if anyone else has signed up for a paid tier of #EntePhotos, send me your referral code too! I didn't use a referral code when signing up and I wanna max out my free bonus storage! First referral code I receive will also get the 10gb bonus bump from me using your code.

#Ente

Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Oct 1, 2025
And sorry for the spam, y'all! I'm done posting about it lol
Show threadTinh1000000Oct 1, 2025
@baralheia ONTDERG is mine’s! Convenient timing since I already maxed out my 200 gigs storage on google photos xD
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Oct 1, 2025
@Tinh1000000 Oh no!! If only I'd waited... someone else sent me theirs first :( I'm sorry derg
Show threadTinh1000000Oct 1, 2025
@baralheia All good!! Many the thank for the recommendation xD
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Oct 2, 2025
@Tinh1000000 You're welcome! Yeah hopefully it works well for you  I've found it to be a perfectly cromulent photo app so far. I do wish storage prices were more on par with Google but at least I can transition to self-hosting Ente at some point if I really want to
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Oct 8, 2025

Okay yeah I lied, sorry, lol... I just have to say I am VERY impressed with how seamless the transition into using #EntePhotos has been. I just downloaded my Google Takeout data and discovered Ente can directly import the ZIP file from Google - and it restores *everything*.

Y'ALL. Amazing shit!

Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Oct 8, 2025
The only criticisms I have so far are that it takes a bit of training for the local-only facial recognition to reliably detect specific faces as belonging to a specific person, and prices for their hosted storage are a bit more expensive than I'd really like... tho it's still not awful yearly.
Show threadShinisuryu/Atlas ApparatusOct 8, 2025
@baralheia That's *awesome*! I'm very interested now!
Show threadBaral'heia Stormdancer Ξ˜Ξ”πŸ²Oct 8, 2025

@Shinisuryu Yeah give it a try, you can install it on your phone and sign up for free and get like 10gb of space to play with. If you like what you see, then you can subscribe in-app or via their website. Sub prices could be a bit better, but if you look back in this thread and use my referral code and you'll get an extra 10GB for free, and you can earn more free space if you refer anyone else, too. I'd recommend using their apps for Windows, MacOS, and Linux to do bulk uploads though... it processes much faster, and that also applies to the local-only machine learning model (if you turn that option on). That model gets shared between all your devices too, encrypted and syncronized via Ente just like your photos are.

I've been *very* impressed with Ente at every step of the exploration process, honestly.

Show threadShinisuryu/Atlas ApparatusOct 8, 2025
@baralheia I'll have to think about it for sure!
Show threadShinisuryu/Atlas ApparatusNov 4
@baralheia Finally went to check them out, liking them for sure! Used your code too!