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Literal Hostage Situation (europe.pub)
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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'll just leave this here

[–] LordGennai@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity - are there any companies offering to host Immich for you and provide backups and stuff?

I’m tempted to self host it for my family, but my biggest concern is losing data that I self host (and time spent managing this).

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In your situation, Ente would be better. Handling a VPS for Immich is asking for a headache.

Ente supports a family plan, handles hosting and backup for you, supports all your usual media files and imports them cleanly from Google Photos. But it's private, encrypted, and you can take out your data at any time with a single click.

[–] LordGennai@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Ente does seem pretty much exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks!

Anybody have thoughts on Ente? Am I going to find out later that they’re a horrible company who will steal my data and have to migrate again? 😅

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago

https://elest.io/open-source/immich

No experience with them so can't at all vouch for them, but it looks like there are providers who will do this.

I self host Immich with an off site backup (=raspberry pi at in-laws house, all over WireGuard). Can't recommend Immich enough!