• SGG@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Immich is generally regarded as the self hosted replacement for Google photos, personally I have been happy with nextcloud, it’s more basic for photos but still does the job for me.

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        2 days ago

        Gah, Nextcloud is missing all the features and is frankly unusable (mobile apps are slow, can’t make or view albums, and can’t “open with” links on Android at least). My family uses it and my biggest project right now is importing all our stuff to Immich when I finally get the NixOS server ready to replace Ubuntu.

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        2 days ago

        I haven’t had any stability issues with immich and I’ve been running it for over a year. Nextcloud has always been pretty slow for me and I’ve not had that issue with immich.

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          This. Next cloud was /so/ slow and bloaty for me when I tried it. I also got turned away by their lack of ambition with security that went through lemmy about a year ago. I don’t like that they were advertising an encryption feature and then not actually encrypting anything past the first folder level. The feature is fixed now I believe but I didn’t like the how nom-chalant that process went. Especially for a program that seems to want to be commercial.

          Maybe the slowness was fixed, I should look into it again but my main use case was file storage/backup and syncthing more than manages that with way less overhead

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          The only slowness I’ve experienced so far is that the android app can get a bit sluggish when scrolling around in the middle of my timeline, or inside bigger albums. Everything else totally smooth though

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            1 day ago

            If you have a lot of photos, does immich require they all be downloaded locally, or does it fetch them from the server as needed?

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              It fetches them as needed, much like Google photos. Every photo in the timeline has a little icon on it telling you whether it’s on your device or only on the server. You can have Immich installed on several devices and see photos from all of them on any of them no problem

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                22 hours ago

                That’s great! It’s what’s been holding me back from other self hosted solutions, is that they seemed to want a full two-way sync. Maybe it’s time to make the switch!

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                  Go for it! Doesn’t even need that much investment as long as you’re familiar with self-hosting. Just install it and see how it goes with new photos, and you can still backfill your old photos later. There is a tool that even lets you migrate your entire Google photos account, including albums, favorites etc super easily from Google takeout