[realityfactchex]

What's the best alternative? Flickr?

I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management.

I don't want to use Apple or Google or MS Clouds for various reasons.

I do want to support a pure-play, independent-ish, profitable, consumer friendly platform. To upload hires shots and have them easy to tag/share/access among those to whom they may be of interest.

I expect to pay, but not through the nose. Reliability matters. I would want the company to be around in 20 years and still reasonably priced/useful. Suggestions?

[drnick1]

The Nextcloud app on my phone automatically backs up my pictures to my Nextcloud instance. This is painless to run in a Docker container at home, but Nextcloud also has a subscription service if you don't want to self-host, and your money funds free software.

[doublepg23]

> I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management.

I dunno https://immich.app is pretty painless IME.

[fg137]

You still need a host that provides a large storage and monthly bandwidth, which is becoming expensive. It doesn't take care of backups either.

[lutr]

I self-host Immich on a personal home server. I do pay for backups, though. For 65GB of images (not a lot) I pay ~$1/mo to Backblaze. The backed-up data is 30% bigger in size right now (= 82GB), as it's incremental.

[fg137]

Which means it's not "painless". The immich part may be, but compared to automatically synchronizing to iCloud or Google Photos, the experience is significantly worse for an average user.

[Ender-events]

Perhaps try https://ente.com/, as they offer a paid plan.

[ewy1]

so you want a service that does everything, is around forever, extremely reliable, affordable, and easy to use, and not affiliated with big tech? and you don't want to do anything yourself?

[sib]

You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years