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what is everyone using for photos? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by limit@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Looking for an alternative to synology photos. I moved over to synology about 3 years ago and am now considering moving out of the synology ecosystem. I'm looking for something that has a decent android app, wifi syncing, shareable albums, all the standard stuff.

Edit: thanks for the many replies, I'll likely move to nextcloud as I was planning on deploying that anyway as a synology drive replacement. I'll look into immich as well.

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[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Nextcloud. It's definitely overkill for photos alone, but since you are likely to want it for other stuff anyway, why not use its gallery (which is decent) as well?

I personally use it for backup and sharing, and do the bulk of my photos/collections management in digikam (reading from a fast network storage).

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 5 points 3 years ago

Use my nextcloud for calendar, contacts, RSS reader, photo sync from my phone, office suite and others.

[–] fhein@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Does Nextcloud handle large numbers of photos nowadays? IIRC when I was comparing programs some years ago I read that both it and Owncloud struggled when you got to a few 10000s of photos.

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I have 3 times that much for just a single user, so I think you should be fine.

[–] fhein@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I suppose "a few" is quite open to interpretation, but I have 50k photos now so if it can handle 100k without getting sluggish it'll probably be fine for the foreseeable future.

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Thanks for the recommendation, I don't think it would help with my workflow (I do the classifying and curating in Digikam and then export to timestamped folders), but I'm sure many will find it useful :)

[–] greatley@ani.social 1 points 3 years ago

You should try installing the Memories app in Nextcloud. The built-in gallery is very limited and can't read EXIF data.