Nextcloud VS librephotos

NextCloud - Once I have my Unraid NAS up and running I will be setting up NextCloud for the whole family. This way I can get my unencrypted files and photos off of services such as Dropbox and iCloud.

Nextcloud Dev (version 20230906): Synchronization client

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When I researched Nextcloud in the past, I avoided it because of warnings like the ones in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25481465

Ctrl+F search that thread for "failure".

If Nextcloud has solved whatever issues were happening in 2020, it still doesn't necessarily instill confidence because one can remain skeptical and assume there are new issues still happening in 2023. E.g. https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues

It's going to take time to wade through all those issues to determine if there are any showstoppers that would affect one's installation. This doesn't look like a low-maintenance solution.

The PHP core package is offered as pre-compiled binary via Ports packages system. In addition, important softwares such as extensions, Composer and PECL libraries are available. So are frameworks such as NextCloud and Zabbix.

I am not interested in complex cloud hosting systems like https://www.seafile.com/en/home/, https://nextcloud.com/, https://owncloud.com/. I run some cloud software (forgot the name) in the past and it was very inefficient at synchronizing, Seafile was great with synchronization, but recovery was painful.

As mentioned, I do not use closed-source services either. So, I do not use services by big tech companies. People use gmail, google drive, google search, WhatsApp, Zoom, Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft Office, photoshop etc. All these services collect and sell your data. I use ProtonMail, Nextcloud, Matrix, Jitsi, Jellyfin, LibreOffice, GIMP etc. Most of these sre self-hosted, that is, they are hosted on my home server, so most data does not even leave my own ecosystem that I have created. I own my data.

I found some other Solutions: Lomorage immich PicApport LibrePhotos Lomorage does directly mention the Feature I want, immich maybe does have it too.

Sticking with LibrePhotos. Freeeeee and opens source.

* ~~ Ownphoto's ~~ * librephotos > Google Photo's

FOSS photo software with face recognition (note that some of this is off-premise face recognition, sometimes requiring an API key you get on your own)

https://damselfly.info

https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos

https://photoview.github.io/

I may have missed some: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...

You should try Librephotos

https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos Libre photos

LibrePhotos - Man, I *so* want a google photos replacement that gives me control over how my photos are organized. Photoprism and LibrePhotos are both almost there. Of the two, I chose LibrePhotos mainly because I like how the project is run, and because it doesn't rely on making humongous thumbnails of all your media (so therefore uses about 1/4 the space in its database).