[pydry]

You can host a family and friends' instance on your own hardware.

I have a small vps which just tunnels into a laptop running at home.

Half of the features of immich would become 10x harder to implement if encryption needed to be done client side.

[eddythompson80]

I meant hosting such instance with the bare minimum privacy considerations. Otherwise you would have to be honest with them that you’ll have complete access to all their photos and make sure they understand it. People’s camera roll is often akin to their text history or email. It can contain plenty of personal and private things. Just because we’re friends, or even siblings, it doesn’t mean it’s free-for-all access to everything.

Agreed on the difficulty of implementing server side features though, especially all the things people expect from a Google Photos alternative.