sonofearthNov 1

Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

https://lemmy.world/post/38160907

Show threadcriticalinviteNov 1
What is it and what does it do?
Show threadsonofearthNov 1

Image Backup* solution — like Google Photos or Ente Photos but self-hosted.

*Backup in the sense of uploading your photos to a server you own. You should backup the database as well as your library with 3-2-1 method.

Show threadLeon
Ente is also open source and can be self-hosted.
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Show threadsonofearthNov 1
If it works then great. I find it pretty lacking compared to Immich.
Show threadLeonNov 1
I guess they fill different niches. I use Ente for the e2ee, that’s pretty important to me. Immich definitely seems more like a drop in Google Photos alternative, I just use software on my computer to do that instead.
Show threadartyomNov 1
E2EE is definitely important for uploads on someone else’s server. On my server? Ehhh, not so much. The entire drive is already encrypted. Another layer of encryption would just slow it down. Just my opinion.
Show threadGreyEyedGhostNov 1
I would think e2ee would be important if youre uploading files when away from your local network. If that isn’t enabled, then it’s far less important. At that point, it would only matter if there was a compromised client harvesting your wifi packets.
Show threadartyomNov 1
Immich automatically uploads when I connect to wifi so that’s not really a problem. Nor am I personally concerned with someone MITMing my personal photos, I just want them out of corporate silos that use them to exploit me or hand them over to the gov in a dragnet.
Show threadqqqNov 1
If this is happening via a VPN you almost definitely already have transit encryption
Show threadGreyEyedGhostNov 1
Fair point, and if ypure worried about privacy while transferring images, a VPN should have already been considered.
Show threadhikaru755Nov 2

e2ee would be important if youre uploading files when away from your local network

Even without e2ee or a VPN, just plain old HTTPS should be enough to secure that part, or am I missing something?

Show threadGreyEyedGhostNov 2
True, but if you control both endpoints, e2ee and https look very similar.
Show threadbalance8873Nov 1
Their auth is better than the tool itself (last time I evaluated options which was maybe a year ago)
Show threadLeonNov 1

Oh they update a lot. The clients have gotten really snappy, which is nice because browsing photos felt a bit cumbersome before. There’s now automatic albums and facial recognition, if you opt in to that. Was going to say that there’s no editing tool but there is. It’s quite basic though, three tabs, crop, transform (rotate, flip, resize), and colours (brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur for some reason lmao).

There’s also a bunch of sharing features. You could share images or albums directly, or even create embeds for if you have a portfolio website. I pretty much only use it as a backup service though.