One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.

Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don’t know.

  • morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I got the supporter for free, because I donated to them before they joined FUTO. I donate frequently to opensource projects. This is a good way to say thanks to the devs 😊

    Even small donations are fine, so please donate to projects you enjoy 👍🏻

  • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Seriously everyone pushes Immich so hard I’m a little suspicious of it now :D

    Edit: all right, all right, I installed it. It has a thing about not uploading all the pictures I give it, some error out. I have a feeling it is due to the library being on a NAS share.

        • smoker@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          They are indicative of something. That something is just not always “this project is good”.

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      The fediverse is small and the Immich dev is one of our own, not surprising that it’s super popular

    • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.

      The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.

      I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

    • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Immich: Image Backup* solution — like Google Photos or Ente Photos but self-hosted.

      *Backup in the sense of uploading your photos to a server you own. You should backup the database as well as your library with 3-2-1 method.

        • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          • Short: It is a second Hardrive using borg that backs up the primary Hardrive.

          • Long: My Backup strategy:-

          Databases and other imp files:

          For databases the backup happens every night that gets saved on the server itself. Then when my laptop connects either to the home network or to the Internet, the backup zip files on my server syncs to my laptop via syncthing. Then my laptop’s data is backed up to OneDrive (encrypted) — this includes the immich database backups. I usually keep 7 days worth of backup files just incase some get corrupted and I can just go back to the previous day.

          Library

          Since my Immich Library is big, daily borg backups are not possible for 200 gigs. So I have scheduled them every Sunday morning when I rarely use the server. The hardrive is exclusively used only for Immich. That hardrive is then backed up to another hardrive using borg and also to my OneDrive using rclone. (All encrypted). So 3 copies of the data, 2 on 2 different hardives (1 is primary) and 1 offsite.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I don’t hate FUTO, but I distrust them.

      On one hand, their operation is creepy and suspicious.

      The extent of the FUTO “grant program”, at least in the case of musl libc, involved ignoring musl’s established process for institutional sponsors, quietly sending a modest one-time donation to one maintainer, and then plastering the logo of a well-respected open source project on a list of “grant recipients” on their home page. Rich eventually posted on Mastodon to clarify that the use of the musl name and logo here was unauthorized.

      On the other, I like the idea of licenses that allow unrestricted private use and modification but forbid commercial exploitation. Those two situations are not equivalent. I realize this is an unpopular opinion in many FOSS circles, but we are already being exploited to death by the rich and powerful and they must not be entitled to the value of our collective free and voluntary labor. If we ever realize a society in which wealth and power is effectively capped for such entities, then I would change my tune. Until then, fuck them. Our collective software is for the collective, not for wealth hoarders and despots.

    • Droolio@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I find it wild in this day and age how questions like (“why do WE hate” such and such) are being asked in the first place, then answered through one person’s opinion piece mindlessly linked from all angles. Please, for gawd sake, stop listening to random fedditors/redditors about what opinions you should adopt!

      IMHO (<- there’s a novel approach), the criticisms of FUTO are just as biased and political as FUTO themselves, and everyone should be sceptical of bias from all sides. Apparently, focusing on ‘privacy, decentralization, and right to repair’ - is being too political, and they’re not allowed to have a philosophical take on what they imagine successful open source to be. (Incidentally, I’m not necessarily on FUTOs side, just pissed off at the nature of social media to obviate the need of critical thinking and make everything black or white.)

      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I mean sure but… did you read the piece linked? It backs up it’s claims. Not gonna sit here and act like I verified every single thing linked in the piece but I checked a good handful and it seems pretty straightforward. FUTO is pretty sketchy at the very least, and there’s good reason to consider them a fascist org

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          My read is that FUTO as a software movement is totally fine, it does what it claims on the tin. The people behind FUTO are a different story, and the main person bankrolling it seems to have friends with odd views (I think they’re blown out of proportion, but they’re still concerning).

          You’ll never find a perfect movement. Here’s what FUTO seems to prioritize:

          • local first alternatives to big tech
          • source availability, but in a way big tech can’t use but home users can
          • profitability for devs without coercion or feature gates

          That sounds pretty good to me! I’d prefer it to be FOSS, but allowing me to distribute modifications for non-commercial use is probably good enough for most things.

          I probably disagree with their founder politically, and I’d run FUTO differently, but I think their software is good and I could maintain it myself if needed, and at the end of the day, that’s what matters to me.

          FUTO doesn’t seem interested in getting involved in politics, they’re merely musing philosophically, and their products aren’t profitable, so it doesn’t really matter to me what their political positions are.

        • Droolio@feddit.ukEnglish
          0·
          4 months ago

          Yes I read it when it first came out, and again after a recent update. It’s very opinionated and I remain unconvinced the criticisms amounts to very much. At the least, certainly not to the point where words like nazi and fascist should be thrown around!

          For example, I dislike Yarin’s and Lunduke’s politics but I did at least watched Yarin’s interview. (Did you? It was boring, and entirely tech-oriented, nothing controversial at all.) But… trial by association I guess. And anyway, it’s not the article itself I have a problem with - it’s the borrowing of second-hand opinions as if they should be your own. Sometimes, it’s prudent to reserve judgement (until ‘verifying every single thing’), or criticise specific ideas, without leaping to ad hominem per consortium.

          • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            4 months ago

            As far as I can tell the worst thing they did was call their source available license open source, which isn’t even that bad.

        • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, I read this article twice now, and the only identifiable wrongdoing on FUTO’s part is donating to FOSS projects without using their “institutional practice”… Which is a bizarre complaint.

          The article is rife with “something ain’t right at FUTO”, but fails to wrap words around that statement.

        • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Except the person who wrote that, regardless of the actual issues with FUTO, cannot be trusted and is an unreliable source.

          I really would encourage people to not treat that guy as a real source, but use it as a starting point for evaluating his sources, such as they are, on their own merits.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              I think there could be more to it. Louis Rossmann had personal issues with the lead dev there a year or two ago due to how they interact in their forum, and I think he had some great reasons to be concerned. Since then the lead dev has stepped away as project lead, but I doubt the bad blood is completely gone.

              I think it’s a bit suspicious that they don’t mention what feature(s) FUTO wanted. Given their interaction with other projects, I’m guessing they wanted a “supporter” badge for people who have bought the software (no change in functionality other than the badge). I’m guessing also that due to their interaction with Rossmann, they’re uninterested in clarifying, esp. if it would put FUTO in a better light if they did.

              Then again, maybe FUTO is a bunch of scumbags. It just seems the slant against them is so much stronger than the actual negative impact from a handful of repos having source-available licenses instead of FOSS licenses.