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?

bloodfart,

Have pictures printed and mail them. Use a family text thread.

If you aren’t gonna host your own digital files and you don’t want someone else to get their hands on em those are the options.

Adalast,

I don’t mind self-hosting, I just need something that can host from a dynamic IP since static is too expensive right now.

bloodfart,

there’s vps providers in the $10 per year range that come with fifteen or so gigabytes of storage and a static ip if you can swing that.

here’s cloudserver with ten bucks for a year of static IP and 20GB

i can’t imagine baby pictures would push the bounds of that storage…

itsnotits,

Syncthing

neutron,

It can become really messy if one family member deletes a picture by accident and everyone complains. I’d use Syncthing for machines I personally manage.

itsnotits,

You can control which devices can make and propagate changes to shared folders.

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.

ryannathans,

What are your requirements and desires for browsing/viewing?

Adalast,

Ideally, as easy to interface with as possible for non-tech literate users. My mother-in-law once told my wife “I don’t know why you would ever want to strengthen your mind.” in response to confronting my wife on why she was reading a book outside as a child instead of playing physically. This is a mantra she has continued well into her 50’s and is still going “strong”. I need something she can access and download pictures from to print off and hang on her wall like she does from FB now. This is essentially the low bar. Everyone else should be more competent than that.

ryannathans,

I haven’t found something with a nice simple UI, let us know how you go

motopazzo,

smugmug.com

ChallengeApathy,

I know Futo has an app called Circles which is designed for things like that and staying in contact with family without social media. It’s supposedly E2EE and controlled by the person hosting the circle.

I haven’t used it yet for myself so I can’t say whether it’s good or not, but it sounds like something you might be interested in.

Congrats on the newborn, by the way!

Adalast,

Thank you on the congrats! We are so happy and he could not be more adorable.

Also thank you for the suggestion, I will dig into it.

dessalines,

I self-host Photoprism, and use it to share albums privately with people.

The flow goes:

  • I take pictures with my phone
  • Those get synced via Syncthing to my photos folder.
  • Photoprism is set up via docker, with my photos folder added.
Adalast,

This has potential in many ways. I will have to set it up and see how it feels.

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.

RobotDaniel,

Could set up a nextcloud instance, but might be a bit overkill for your use case as it is a full Google workspace replacement

franglais,

Why can’t you self host? I have a wordpress site, and everything is fine, I use noIP for a domain name and IP tracking. Everything is running on a raspberry pi 4, with 7TB of USB storage. Loading up the photos can be a little slow when we post a big adventure day out, but if you’re patient, or have the means to put a more powerful machine on the job, it is the best way to share your lives with family. Wordpress has an option to ask the search engine crawler to not index the website, and it seems to work. When I post to the blog, I have an email subscription list for all my family, who want to be notified of a new post.

prx,

Xmpp server with account for family members? Personally, I host one, and keep favourites pics on a minigal nano, a php app to share pictures on my webserver

capital,

I do:

  • own domain with cloudflare
  • ddns with their API
  • NextCloud in docker
  • caddy reverse proxy takes care of SSL cert

Or:

  • Plex can do photos too and they have a docker container
  • invite family to your server

Or:

  • Immich with same setup as NextCloud
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