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The Verge: Google might scan your photos for personalized ads (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 6 days ago (11 children)

If you're interested in a self-hosted alternative, I can highly recommend immich. The UI is clean and fast (relative to Photoprism), has android and iOS apps, auto phone->server uploading, sharable albums, and more features. I don't know anyone that has been disappointed after switching, and I see why

The biggest pain if you want to set it up is starting your home server if you don't already have one. Otherwise I found setting up immich itself on a server pretty easy

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

    The only problem with Immich is that it's a fascism-supporting FUTO project. It's excellent software, but don't give them your money, because they'll send it to fascists.

    https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    2nd this. Have it on a NAS box and the biggest task was just download and re uploading to Immich. Once on I find the UI pleasant and the face tagging is a nice touch.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Long time PhotoPrism user here, really curious what you find slow or unclean about it? Maybe I should switch.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    I primarily found that when importing photos, it would take Photoprism a long time to generate thumbnails. It was long enough that I would give up on trying to sort through the photos after uploading and come back a few hours later

    Alternatively with Immich, I dumped ~100 Halloween photos taken with my phone and DSLR onto the server. They were already previewable by the time the files were done uploading

    I've already uninstalled Photoprism so I couldn't tell you what my config was. Could have required more tuning; but I'm at a point in life where I'm leaning towards needing things to "just work", than to have to tune things

    Re: Unclean: IIRC, Photoprism gives you a lot of tools and options. More options and features = more stuff on your screen = a more cluttered UI. While I did like the tools, it also made it difficult to share with normies

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