Hey, the server was open sourced just yesterday. We are yet to update our landing page copies, and we definitely weren't ready to be in HN today (but are glad to be here!) :)

So there is no black-box magic that the subscription enables. Our live, breathing production setup is available in a monorepo here[1].

> is this not even possible

This is very much possible.

I've added an updated comment here[2], thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576920