In light of Apple’s recent decisions[0], I’ll be moving all my photos out of iCloud. I want a completely private way of sharing photo albums with family/friends. And to backup my photos. Recommendations?<p>[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
There are _tons_ of self-hosted image organizers. Most are abandoned or cancelled after a year or two either when the VC money runs out, or the open source developer grows weary of toxic users. Most are fine with managing a hundred or even a couple thousand images, but then crap out with larger libraries. I couldn't find one that would clean up the mess I had from crashed or cancelled software that squirreled originals into proprietary folder hierarchies, downsampled originals and deleted chunks of metadata, with dupes strewn everywhere, so I built it.<p>PhotoStructure runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, and docker. PhotoStructure libraries are portable across OSes and machines, and optionally stores your originals in a configurable datestamped folder hierarchy. It has excellent image and video deduplication and robust metadata extraction (because my own library need it), and a friendly web-based, mobile-friendly UI. The beta is free to try in exchange for your feedback!<p><a href="https://photostructure.com/why/" rel="nofollow">https://photostructure.com/why/</a>
Monument2. Nicely done pi-like sbc which takes m2 SSD and runs an image archive. I'm a backer, it's just in release now. Comes with reasonable tagging, ML and classification, as well as phone app
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The first 5 gig of storage is free, so you can try it out.
There is a friends and family option on folders, so you can share