Setup an instance of #immich today, on a proxmox VM. Pretty straightforward. #degoogling

Photos was used a lot by family members, endlessly growing library of photos and videos from phones, quickly exhausting free and paid storage. My only ongoing spend to google, and soon to end forever. Spinning rust is cheap.

@johnefrancis my wife and I have been paying for #Ente and have been happy. I weighed self-hosting vs paying and decided paying was worth the convenience in this case. I’m self-hosting other things though, for the same reasons you give. Can’t see myself ever going back.
@johnefrancis wondering what else you’re self hosting?
@johnefrancis We’re running #immich locally under #umbrel as a test for a curated library. Like it so far. We’re an Apple household and will keep using Apple Photos for integrated day-to-day casual imagery (storage consumption is okay).