Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by getpost » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 7:28 PM UTC

Discord for sharing and multi-person audio/video. Content is accessible to Discord itself, of course, but not to the uninvited. Don't need an email address. Works on desktop, tablet, phones.

https://discord.com/ about: https://www.protocol.com/discord

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by Semaphor » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

I use my own nextcloud instance for that. I can either get a share link, or set a password for access.

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by patentatt » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 8:19 PM UTC

23snaps. Great for keeping extended family up to date with photos of the kids while being far more privacy oriented than other options. I've been using it for 5 years and highly recommend it. https://www.23snaps.com/

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by jinnko » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

I set up a Mastodon instance and a Peertube instance on my own server and got all everyone onto Mastodon. They all get how to use Mastodon, including the seniors, so that's what most people engage with. Peertube videos can be easily embedded into toots so both pics and videos are shareable.

I also have a Nextcloud instance and have all photos and videos auto uploaded, then recently Nextcloud introduced some workflow features that I used to auto upload all videos from Nextcloud to Peertube, making it really easy to go pick the video link and share.

What I've found is that better quality photos and videos tend to make it into Mastodon and Peertube, while other content will still be shared in the Signal group chat.

It's all running in docker, making it easy to upgrade, backup, and/or move around.

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by alessivs » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

Beaker browser[1], previously Tox[2], previously Opera Unite (dead)[3]. Sharing content with competent, but not expert, computer user(s). On desktop only; while seemingly a downside, privacy and tracking concerns may lead to exclude major mobile OSs.

[1]: https://beakerbrowser.com/

[2]: https://tox.chat/

[3]: https://maqentaer.com/devopera-static-backup/http/dev.opera....

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by edsemail123 » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 8:59 PM UTC

Signal

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by asix66 » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 9:55 PM UTC

Self hosted on a Synology server. Custom domain, ddns, Letsencrypt certificate.

Re: Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?

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Post by abramN » Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

yarinr wrote: post #18

Google Photos with shared albums, works great for my family & friends. It used to be impossible for everyone to get all the photos after a vacation / trip / event. Now we just create a shared album and everyone upload everything. Edit: WhatsApp biggest flaw is the aggressive compression. It takes pictures down to an unacceptable qualify.