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Google Photos Alternative

What are you using as a Google photos alternative? Currently I'm using Nextcloud but I'm thinking of switching to a more dedicated solution.

I mainly need to upload photos from my device automatically, have an UI to see and classify them, albuns and sharing.

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How does federation actually work?
  • It uses activity pub, a protocol that allows servers to share content. So when you post on an instance, it became available for other instances to consume your content.

    About slowness, it can be that your instance it being rate limited, or it is not powerful enough to process all its users. You can try another instance.

    Activity pub documentation: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

  • What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
  • Another option is SearXNG. It's meta search engine, which means that it aggregates other search engines like Google and Bing but without tracking or logging, because your searches are proxied using a public instance, that will mix your search with the ones from other people.

    And about default search engine, don't know what you're talking about, both chrome and Firefox allows this, in mobile and desktop.

    https://searx.space/

  • File Browser vs Nextcloud
  • If you remove the app-platform role from Nextcloud by separately hosting the individual apps, what benefit do you get from having both Nextcloud and File Browser?

    Nothing really. For almost any Nextcloud feature out there, you can find a server app that does the same.

    But that's the point in my opinion. I don't want to waste time managing tons of apps if I can manage one Nextcloud instance. Nextcloud basically decides for me what's the best way to get those features running, so I don't need to figure out myself.

    Now if you're into self hosting one container for each feature, go for it, no reason to not do so.

  • Email server hosting

    I'm exploring some options to see if it's viable to self host my email account. Currently I have:

    • A home server that I can host the entire email stack but I cannot open the SMTP port there
    • An AWS account where I can create a VM with SMTP ports open to the internet and reverse DNS support, also I have a domain and AWS SES configured and approved to send emails

    Ideally I would want to send and receive from my home server, but that is not possible, so I'm exploring some alternatives:

    For receiving emails:

    • Cheap VM with postfix and my home server with dovecot, essentially forwarding all emails to my home server where I want them to be. I don't know if this setup works tho.

    • Keep everything in a VM, with the downside that I'll need to do extra work there as it will have all my data. If possible I don't want to go that route.

    For sending emails:

    • Sending from the same VM receiving emails, and have everything managed

    • Use AWS SES to send emails in my behalf

    Any input or opinion is appreciated. I'm currently exploring options, I haven't made any decisions, so if you have a better alternative feel fee to share.

    Thanks!

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