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Re:Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-en... by izacus on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:34AM (#24878267)
It's not quite free/libre, but I was positively surprised by Synology Moments.

It's basically a software package on the Synology NAS which creates a locally hosted version of Google Photos (including sharing and gallery capability). It comes with Android/iOS apps that can automatically backups all photos directly to your NAS and thus stay in your own ownership.

There is a cost of entrance though - you need to buy the NAS and harddrives... but IMO there's nothing quite like owning your own data.

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Re:Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-en... by ObsoleteNerd on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:46AM (#24878317)
I absolutely love my Synology NAS. The photos function and the Video one especially. Being able to access all the videos on my NAS from any computer/phone/tablet in the house and have them transcode in real-time to suit the device, and/or cast them to our TVs. It’s great.
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Re:Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-en... by anderspitman on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:16PM (#24881309)
Synology has built in sharing over the public web, right? How have ya'll found that functionality to work? Can you just share files and folders with any email address, or does the person you're sharing with have to have a Synology account?
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Re:Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-en... by blfr on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:48AM (#24878330)
there's nothing quite like owning your own data

Sure, but I already have servers and terabytes of storage. Also, I don't want to keep a server/NAS at home. I want it sitting on a big, fat pipe in some DC with professionals maintaining it.

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Re:Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-en... by Heliosmaster on Saturday October 24, 2020 @10:11AM (#24879320)
100% agree. But I'm using the "old" PhotoStation instead of Moments. It feels too much like Google Photos where all pictures are bundled, and I like to have "Albums" or folders that are separate. But i use it also for just regular camera photography, not just phone where it makes more sense to have a timeline. Hard to have a useful timeline when I take 1000 pictures in a weekend with my Fuji
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