When I was switching to GrapheneOS from iOS, I decided to self host my photos. I considered Immich, but I settled on Ente because of the encryption. Ente Photos is extremely polished and it's comparable quality to Apple photos.

It's cool they keep the server open and selfhostable instead of only open clients like many e2ee projects do.

I like how you can share an album and anyone can contribute to it without an account. Another cool feature is that you can select photos to lock when you hand your phone to somebody so they can only see the ones you selected without your device unlock.

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kristopolous 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

for people wondering:

"Ente Photos is a paid service, but we offer 10GB of free storage. You can also >>clone this repository and choose to self-host<<."

So both forms...

https://github.com/ente/ente

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satvikpendem 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ente Auth is also the best, because it works on any device, including the one you're trying to access (maybe it defeats the purpose of 2FA but sometimes I don't care).

	▲	Grombobulous 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I use and like Ente Photos a lot but I’ve never understood the appeal of their other products. Ente Auth and Locker both seem like limited feature subsets of solutions like 1Password.
	▲	Cider9986 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ente is a cool company, all their products feel polished and I like their marketing mascots.

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mock-possum 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I got into Ente because I wanted to create photo upload links on a per-even basis - I can tell all my friends, if you take pics or video tonight, upload it at this URL - and it just works. No app necessary, very simple, very cheap. Then from there, I got the photo backup / archive service because why not.

They really are pretty much just what they appear to be. Im a fan.

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WillDaSilva 3 hours ago | parent [-]

For what it's worth, Immich supports this too. You can create an album (for each event), create a shared link, allow public anonymous uploads for the shared link, and then give the link to everyone at the event, and ask them to upload their photos. It can be done from any web browser.

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cevn an hour ago | parent [-]

I would love to know if there's a way to secure this though. I'm not prepared to have people constantly trying to login to my immich instance so it's only accessible via VPN

	▲	sylens 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You can use something like Immich Public Proxy to only expose the /share path of your server and keep the main /api path that has everything else behind VPN