[Question] Family oriented social network that is local only (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by terminal@lemmy.ml to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Hey selfhosters,

I'm looking for some help finding a selfhosted local only social network with mobile apps (for the less tech savvy).

Basically my family lives all over the place and we want an easy way to share photos of our children and family events with comments and engagement. We are privacy minded and don't want pictures of our kids drifting over a social network. I'm struggling to find any software that is always local only and private.

Somethings I have seen that seem promising but not quite right:

Secure Scuttlebutt Apps
Mastodon +Hometown
Immich
Just a plane old blog

Hometown is almost perfect but it still allows for federation and that will be hard to teach some of my family about. Immich looks great! But doesn't have anyway to engage nor feed.

Hopefully someone out there knows of something. Ideally it would have an interface like social media without the intent to reach the wider world outside of my family.

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[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You could run pixelfed without federation enabled: https://pixelfed.org/

It's like instagram, so should be good for sharing photos and stuff with space for comments.

[-] terminal@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I tried this but the post are not private even when federation is disabled. The post are publicly visible if you find the URL.

[-] Still@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

you could setup a matrix chat room and just block federation as viewing the channels requires login

also has e2ee

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago

You could also run a private XMPP chat server. https://snikket.org/ is easy to install and ideal for small family groups.

[-] Kata1yst@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe Diaspora?

[-] terminal@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Does Diaspora have a mobile app? I thought it was only progressive web.

[-] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 3 points 11 months ago

Why not run Lemmy without federation?

[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Ive just seen this for nextcloud photos, don't know how its working with mobile apps though

https://github.com/nextcloud/photos/issues/432#issuecomment-1458591601

[-] terminal@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I currently use Nextcloud and using photos on mobile is rough. Although I had forgotten about that comment feature on files.

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