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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by andybak »

StavrosK wrote: post #226
kingosticks wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm British and to me "quite" here means "mostly" i.e. not entirely. Could well be a misunderstanding but it should be made clearer as this data is priceless.

Doesn't "quite good" mean "great"? That was my impression, at least.

Another Brit. It's all in the context. "Quite" can easily be a strong superlative but it relies on shared understanding between the parties so I wouldn't depend on that interpretation.

It's fine in a spoken context as tone can add sufficient extra meaning. If you can guarantee the listener is expecting an informal register then it probably also comes across as a superlative. "I met him and he's quite unpleasant" would usually imply he was a total c*nt.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by vishnumohandas »

spuz wrote: post #220
quaintdev wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am guessing he is expecting to share pics with users who did not sign up. It maybe a one time thing. But I think you need user logged in because of encryption.

ente looks interesting to me, but I would like to have the feature to share an album with anyone who has the link. I guess that is not so easy to do though as it would require creating a decrypted copy of the photos in the album that you wish to share which would take extra time and space.

The client that is sharing the album could append the decryption key of that album to the URL fragment, such that it never reaches the server.

For example: albums.ente.io/{albumID}/!#{decryptionKey}

Now on the receivers side, the client can use this `decryptionKey` to decrypt and render the photos.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by rapnie »

fsflover wrote: post #132

Pixelfed is a federated image sharing based on Activity Pub protocol (compatible with Mastodon, Peertube): https://pixelfed.org/ .

Really like how Pixelfed is evolving. A good balanced set of features are added at a good pace. Best way to keep track is via the maintainer's Mastodon account: https://mastodon.social/@dansup

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by patrickaljord »

chomp wrote: post #56
ping_pong wrote: post #50

To be honest, $2/month isn't that unreasonable from a useful service. I would definitely class Google Photos as useful, especially its ability to search for pictures. I personally use iCloud, and back everything to a Synology.

It is not, however for some of us, there was an implicit “I let you datamine my images, you host them” relationship. Having to pay google tips the scales, so why not spend your $2 on a more privacy oriented service?

At $2 per month they are probably still subsidizing you with datamining.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by kyrra »

pindab0ter wrote: post #120
ping_pong wrote: post #50

To be honest, $2/month isn't that unreasonable from a useful service. I would definitely class Google Photos as useful, especially its ability to search for pictures. I personally use iCloud, and back everything to a Synology.

What’s your setup for that? How do you sync (incoming) photos to an arbitrary place outside of the Photos library?

Different tool, but this forum post lists some options: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2...

Some of the tools recommended are:

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.resilio.com/

https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by leokennis »

ale42 wrote: post #177

The Swiss provider Infomaniak has an offer named kDrive (cf. https://www.infomaniak.com/en/kdrive/prices ), at 5.35 CHF per month for 2 TB of space (not only for photos but also for documents, files, etc.). It's more expensive than Google Photos if you have less than 200 GB of data, but is cheaper than Google's 2 TB offer. Moreover, Infomaniak is very committed to user privacy (whence the fact that they don't have so…

Looks nice, but upgrade pricing is a bit steep...

3 TB/month = € 10 (nice)

Add one 5 TB upgrade and it is suddenly €46/month (insane)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by tr1ll10nb1ll »

I’d personally go with creating a nice SPA using S3 for storage. Super cheap and well, you manage your own data that way ( to an extent ).

Plus, design it however you want.

If that seems too much, you can just use Photos ( iCloud ) and pay for the storage. Seems like a good alternative to me.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by dcuthbertson »

pseingatl wrote: post #153
quyleanh wrote: post #68

You can take a look at this repo [1] Self-hosted - Photoprism [2] - Feature rich server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. The most similar to Google Photos. - Photoview [3] - Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers with Facial Recognition. - Photostructure [4] - Self-hosted photo library that makes browsing and sharing a lifetime of memories delightful. - Li…

Picasa?

Google retired Picasa. From the site[0]:

  Moving on from Picasa
  We’ve decided to retire Picasa in order to focus on a 
  single photo service in Google Photos – a new, smarter 
  photo app that works seamlessly across mobile and the web.
[0] https://picasa.google.com/

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by jablan »

sp332 wrote: post #91
vzaliva wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would never use or recommend Flickr. They lied to me. As premium user (for many yars) the promise to me was that photos uploaded will be kept free forever as long as the service exists. Even if I stop paying. Then they went back on that. They may have a very good reasons, but the trust was broken.

They were owned by Yahoo for a while. Has the management changed since the one that broke your trust?

Why would anyone need to care who sits in the management? The trust was broken by a company.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

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Post by Jabbles »

dolmen wrote: post #225
Jabbles wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of datamining? I suppose we have no way of actually knowing if it's true, but Google does say they don't use Photos data for ads: As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content—such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos—for advertising purposes, period. https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-priva...

> As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content—such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos—for advertising purposes, period. As always with privacy policies, the information is in what is NOT said. 1. They don't sell to anyone. But what giving away for free? 2. They don't use personal content for advertising purposes. But what about…

1 seems unlikely to me - why would Google do that? It would always be in exchange for something, which is pretty much selling.

2 seems more plausible.

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