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One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.
Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.
Ente is also open source and can be self-hosted.
If it works then great. I find it pretty lacking compared to Immich.
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.
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.
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.
If this is happening via a VPN you almost definitely already have transit encryption
Fair point, and if ypure worried about privacy while transferring images, a VPN should have already been considered.
Even without e2ee or a VPN, just plain old HTTPS should be enough to secure that part, or am I missing something?
True, but if you control both endpoints, e2ee and https look very similar.
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.
Their auth is better than the tool itself (last time I evaluated options which was maybe a year ago)
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.