How do you share pictures with your friends/family?

Posted by alexburlis on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:48AM
from the self-post dept.

I started to abandon all "social" networks in the last couple of years and just created shared albums on iOS with friends that also have Apple devices. It's great, but also tedious. What do you use?

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Re:How do you share pictures with your friends/family? by Grimburger on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:21AM (#33355168)

If you are happy with the whole DIY thing perhaps consider nextcloud and hook it up to something like Backblaze or Wasabi?

Could probably do the same with a static site generator, there's some nice image gallery templates around, maybe a few hours of messing around to get it all setup but after that it's just a case of 5 mins updating it now and then.

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Re:How do you share pictures with your friends/family? by alexburlis on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:25AM (#33355201)

Had a Nextcloud instance before, but wasn't what I was looking for. It's less for archival family album purposes, but more for sharing pictures of a trip in a way that leaves some room for social interaction with my friends - without being public. Do you use Nextcloud to share pictures in your friend circle and know something I don't?

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Re:How do you share pictures with your friends/family? by Grimburger on Saturday October 29, 2022 @08:24PM (#33389433)

I share pics using nextcloud links, but not that often, usually just via email for simplicity.

For something with a social element I'm not sure, though open source alternatives to popular platforms usually pop up on the front page.

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Re:How do you share pictures with your friends/family? by dersuuzula on Thursday October 27, 2022 @06:12AM (#33355491)

Google Photos album

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Re:How do you share pictures with your friends/family? by rurban on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:43AM (#33356634)

A family WhatsApp group

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