Family photo sharing?

My son was just born, and while a few photos will go on the likes of Facebook and Instagram, overall my partner and I are wanting to keep our shared photos private from the EULA abuses that we all know and hate.

Does anyone here have any good suggestions? I would create my own front end, but I can’t swing hosting or a static IP to do it from my local box. Are there any companies out there who aren’t total shit bags who claim immediate irrevocable license to all of my photos to do with whatever the fuck they please?

Bristle1744, (edited )

If you and your partner both have iphones then iCloud should be sufficient for keeping the photos to yourselves if you turn on Advanced Data Protection. I think it requires you and your partner to have two yubikeys at a minimum though.

…apple.com/…/advanced-data-protection-for-icloud-…

Photos encrypted at rest, only you and your partner will have access to the keys. If you want the convenience of icloud backup then the government would be able to subpoena your decryption keys from your phone backups, but it’s not going to be available for casual employee access. Automated tagging/face matching is done by your iPhone when it’s plugged in so there’s some organization. Nothing close to Google’s AI organization.

I know Apple is a shit company. But they’ve learned a thing or two after the Fappening.

Advanced Data Protection should be the minimum setting for you to consider Apple as your photo storage. Your photos will auto upload from your phones, apple has partner sharing so photo libraries will automatically be shared between you and your partner, and they recently implemented a system similar to “signal key verification”, but again limited to ADP turned on.

Otherwise you’re looking at Proton or Tresorit.

Adalast,

I will happily look at the alternatives. We avoid Apple like it carries the plague, mostly on my objections to their licensing policies alone. Also, I love that you linked to something about The Fappening, have a 💯 and my heartiest appreciation for you as a scholar and a gentleman.

tkk13909,

I mean, you can just use some simple hard drives if you just want something that works. You can get a terabyte for like 40 bucks nowadays.

SkippingRelax,

So every time you have a couple new pics that you would upload to an online, album and share with your family/friends, you instead put them on a bunch of hard drives that cost 40 bucks each and post one to every contact?

motopazzo,

smugmug.com

over_clox,

Maybe don’t share online?

We have a printing center in my area that prints high quality full color photos for 75 cents a page.

dubyakay,

Photo development booths, printing centres and later phone repair shops (before phones regularly got encrypted) used to be the number one avenue for getting photos leaked.

over_clox,

As true as that is, we’re talking about photos of a newborn infant. Like for real, who would intentionally leak photos of a newborn?

Oh yeah, that’s right, artificial intelligence!

Don’t feed the online machine, take the photos into a print shop via USB flash drive, and I’m pretty sure anyone with a soul will have respect for family privacy.

Not so with online cloud services though ☹️

Grouchy,

Look into Pixelfed.

toastal,

If you want to keep the metadata on the photos, well GG since it and the color profiles will all be stripped

electricprism,

Synology + Docker + Pixelfed is doable

Oha,

Haven’t tried it myself but ente.io seems to be pretty decent

Sunny,

Been a customer for half a year here now and it is such a good service! Easily worth the cost. Highly recommend checking out there website to go through their feature set, their level of transparency is beyond good 🙌

barbapulpe,

You could use Pixelfed if you trust the server admin (many choices), it’s FOSS and based on ActivityPub to share with other Fediverse applications. You could even self-host it.

brian,

I know you said you can’t do your local box, but there’s no necessity for a static IP to do that. Dynamic DNS is relatively easy to set up, I suppose provided you have a domain name you own (which you can find for very reasonable prices).

BearOfaTime,

Or setup Tailscale and enable the Funnel feature for whatever service you want to expose.

This way it’s a bit more secure, since the exposed endpoint is hosted by Tailscale and routed to your device via your Tailscale (encrypted) network.

Using Funnel, no one needs to have the Tailscale client.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Dynamic DNS only works if your IP is publicly routable. My ISP (not sure about OP) puts us behind NAT, so the only way to expose services on my network is through a tunnel, like a VPN.

But many ISPs do provide a routable IP. My last ISP did, so it’s not uncommon.

And you don’t necessarily need to own an IP, services like FreeDNS let you use a subdomain from someone else, but a domain can be as little as $1/year (for TLDs like .site and .store), so it’s probably better to just get one. I have like 10 domains, and they only cost $10/year each or so. But if you just want to try out hosting something, using someone else’s isn’t a bad way to go.

hitmyspot,

While self hosted will obviously be better, you have to balance that with simplicity for non tech users.

We use the paid app tinybeans. Doing it now, I’d consider hosting a stability photos folder.

card797,

Google Photos works well except it is exactly what you don’t want.

friend_of_satan,

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    deegeese,

    Any way to get a gallery browse and light box viewer?

    PoliticallyIncorrect,

    Seafile?

    Adalast,

    This could be a good option. I will have to look into it. I know some of our family is not the most savvy (lucky to be able to use FB) so I may have to look into building a front end on top of it for them, but this is a solid start.

    PoliticallyIncorrect,

    Good luck mate…

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