I had a child and both of our parents were in another country so wanted to keep them updated with photos and videos but refused to use social media. I have been using Back Then which, to be fair, has worked pretty well. I pay a subscription and can give access to anybody I want through their email. They then have to download an app and sign in to see. It updates them if there’s new photos and shows them in a nice chronological order by age. There are other features (likes and comments) but tbh, no-one really uses them and I don’t care about that. For me, it’s just the privacy and access control I’m after

Now I have built my home server and got to the point where it’s reliable (enough), plus I’m happy with my security/SSO setup, does anybody recommend a self hosted photo sharing tool?

  • fluckx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    Immich could be an option ( has an app and user mgmt ).

    Photoprism can work too, but that only had a web/PWA version IIRC.

    • fluckx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Also - If you’re looking for Auto-Sync features for the photos ( automatic upload when you take the pics ) there isn’t a free option on Android for photoprism ( I think ). There’s photo-sync, which will cost you about 3 euros or something.

      If they want to upload pictures manually then there’s no issue.

  • ObM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I ended up on Piwigo. It’s pretty fully featured and allows you to set up access controls for groups. Also has client apps.