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PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Somewhat related: anyone knows a service/tool which creates short movies like an iphone does automatically? I have a nas to which I automatically upload all my phone and DSLR photos/videos. I'd love to see automatic montages every not and then with some animations/music etc. without having to do them myself...

Small, important things like this and support for 'live photos' keep me in Apple's embrace.

The 'memories' feature of of Apple Photos is frankly amazing.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.

I've read you just need to add "PHOTOPRISM_SPONSOR: "true"" to the docker compose lol.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Anyone also used Synology Photos and able to compare it's functionality to this? Which is better?

I used PhotoPrism some time ago when it was slightly less featured, but wasn't satisfied with it. The dealbreaker for me is auto mobile backup. PhotoPrism relies on a third party app to "sync" photos, which isn't the same as backing them up. With that said, PhotoPrism is all the rage in the self-hosting community and I can definitely see why. Conversely, Synology Photos (which I use instead now) has a fantastic mobil…

Thanks for that!

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.

I’m curious how this works with AGPL. Do they not have to release the source of the paid version?

Wouldn't that source only need to be available to those who purchase the paid version?

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.

I’m curious how this works with AGPL. Do they not have to release the source of the paid version?

Their obligation is only to the users who paid for it, and if you host the paid version to serve someone else, the obligation is on you only.

That doesn't mean the code can't get distributed more widely. I guess it's a bet based on the honesty of users.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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I am extremely happy with my photoprism setup. I tried to degoogle my life and found their docker setup to be great. I use FolderSync on my android phone to copy any pictures I take to my photoprism WebDAV

> I use FolderSync on my android phone

Genuinely curious, if you use Android can you truly de google your life?

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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This is a similar project but fully open source (and probably less mature). The lead dev is very active and responsive. https://immich.app/

PhotoPrism is under AGPL, how is that not fully open source?

https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/LICENS...

https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3/

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