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

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

  • el_abuelo@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I dont get the “server” vs “individual” support levels? Im an individual and I have a server…but presumably everyone buying immich has a server? Otherwise it’s pointless? Or is it expected that I buy a server package, plus an individual package for each and every user?

    I know it’s OSS and so any and all donations are voluntary - just the naming here confuses me.

    • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      53 minutes ago

      It is just Donation Tiers I think. Maybe the per user thing only hides the “Buy Immich” button for only that specific user.

  • whocares314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    I really want to use (and support) this, but my case would be the server running on a windows pc with great hardware for all the ML/AI stuff and SSD database storage, but all my media on a NAS. (I’m a flight sim addict, Linux isn’t an option or I’d do it in a heartbeat) Last time I tried, I got the server running in docker pretty easily, but could not for the life of me get my media connected. Any chance that process has improved?

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I’m running it on in docker and I’ve connected it to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I set it up a few months ago, do it’s better since then.

      Don’t even worry about the hardware, I’ve got move set up on a raspberry Pi 5. It’ll take a while to do all the classification on your existing library, but new photos get classified fast enough. You’re unlikely to need to do a smart search immediately after you’ve taken the pic.

      For clarity, I’m not on Windows (obv, raspberry Pi), and I’m not using docker directly; I’m running HAOS on my pi, and I’m using the immich add-on. I know it uses docker, but I can’t tell you the exact command to run.

  • Redex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    12 hours ago

    One thing I don’t get, if someone could explain it to me, is what’s the point of immich over e.g. Nextcloud? Immich is just for photo and video, right? Why not just have a cloud file drive instead? To me, I feel like it’s a waste to have both, since I use Nextcloud to both sync my PC and as a secondary backup, in which case I’d have two copies of my photos on my home server if I wanted to use Immich as well. Am I missing something or is it for people with different workflows?

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      5 hours ago

      Nextcloud is like Google drive, immich is like Google photos.
      You’d typically prefer to look at your photo albums in Google photos instead of Google drive.

  • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.caEnglish
    42·
    12 hours ago

    im like maybe one of few people who barely take photos. its great because i dont need to worry about the costs of cloud storage

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I mostly set it up for a few major albums like my wedding album. Other than that it’s like 90% dog pictures lmao

  • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
    632·
    24 hours ago

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

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
      551·
      22 hours ago

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

    • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      21 hours 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.

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      18 hours ago

      I found it a couple of months ago without hearing about it before. I was in an ideal place for a Google Photos replacement.

      There’s a couple of rough edges but it is, indeed, best-of-class.

    • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      23 hours ago

      Yeah :) Maybe give lychee a try :) it’s minimalist and does one thing, but it does it well !!!

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      21 hours 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
      1813·
      24 hours 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
        166·
        23 hours 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

        • Droolio@feddit.ukEnglish
          71·
          22 hours 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
            5·
            21 hours 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.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          94·
          22 hours 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.

    • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      45·
      1 day 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
          5·
          1 day 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.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    As someone who only used the stock synology app and has always wanted to try something else, what features and things does this do better? I am close to trying it out just to see. Im sure it will solve my 1 big issue where I can’t control the location of photos that default to my application storage, which is pretty small, instead of my actual storage array.

    • MinFapper@startrek.websiteEnglish
      5·
      19 hours ago

      Does everything Google photos does. Their app looks/feels exactly Google’s app, including sharing links. Assuming you’re running it on reasonably powerful hardware, it does all the same face recognition and ML based search that Google photos does.

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        You don’t even need reasonably powerful hardware, I do it on my raspberry Pi 5. It just takes a little longer, which isn’t usually a problem except for the first time you import your library.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Does it have an Android app that will automatically back up photos and videos that I take? Is there a way to do it without exposing a bunch of stuff from my home network?

  • net00@lemmy.todayEnglish
    52·
    19 hours ago

    I’ve tried Immich, but found my plain SMB shares already did 80% of what immich could do I wanted. The remaining 20% I could do easily with my favorite photo/video viewers (looping, filtering, tagging, location data).

    I also hate how it’s only a web portal for desktop. There’s no native desktop app, and no seamless integration with file browsers, video players, etc.

    Maybe I look at it again in a few years

    • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      You can setup external libraries with it. So you, say, upload your photos and videos to your SMB Share, point that SMB Share as external Library in Immich and you will get the benefits of Immich while you can browse your Share normally as you would. I mean yes this is a workaround but it works.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      I used Photoprism years ago, so my knowledge is probably pretty outdated.

      My experience of Photoprism was that mobile was not tightly integrated. At the time I used Syncthing to sync photos — it worked ok for me, but I wasn’t going to set it up on my partner’s phone, for example.

      Immich Just Works on both mobile and desktop. Multi user is great, sharing is great, and the local ML and face detection work remarkably well.

      Whatever works for you is the best of course! Immich fits the bill for me, and it was very much worth it for me to “buy” it.

    • Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      If you use Nextcloud, install the App Memories and you will have the same functions as Immich plus all the upload functions of Nextcloud.

      But if you are not interested in all the Nextcloud functionalities (including contact and calendar sync, musicserver, filesharing, etc) and just want picture management, Immich is the better choice.

      • EpicFailGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        That’s exactly what I have, and that’s exactly what I wanted … DARN … oh well. I guess it’s nice to have the document sync as well