You don’t have unlimited storage though.

Google will patch your exploit eventually and you could lose all your data.

Cool so you don’t have unlimited storage and might lose everything if Google decides to patch the exploit you’re using.

How?

Google Photos isn’t free. You are the product.

Also it’s literally not free, it’s cheaper to host Immich than it is to pay for storage indefinitely

For that we need a LOT more users. It’s kind of a chicken and egg situation.

Hopefully we can capitalise on the next Rexit.

In the past lots of people moved over but left because of the terrible UX. I think PieFed has solved most of the UX issues.

Out of curiosity, which instance?

I think you can select all folders, I recommend taking the path I did. Run Immich in parallel with Google-Photos for a few months and see if you like it.

I did so an synced my camera roll from my phone (~6000 photos) and it works great. I also added some family members etc. and they also like it.

Now in the process of moving everything over.

It would be great if there was kind of cleanup plugin for Immich.

Like Tinder for pics you want to keep or dump. I could spend 10min every day in the train to swipe left or right on pics I want to keep or remove.

Ah you’re right, oops. I can be a bit lysdexic at times.

I’m doing my part

I’m curious to know what PieFed’s user base would look like.

Most people simply don’t know about Lemmy/PieFed.

I think once features mature a bit more, if there is another rexit we could see numbers tripple or more.

Many people didn’t stick around with previous rexit’s because the UX sucked.

Yea it sucks, but quality is important so I get it.

🫄

2026 Year of the Linux desktop?

Surely this will bring over a lot of people to Linux

Let’s go!!

I hope governments switch to this

Is it much easier than TrueNAS?

I went with TrueNAS because it’s open-source, and it’s been smooth sailing.

(I just use it as a NAS, nothing more)

It’s basically android with all the spy ware stripped out and more privacy features, so not perfect but still significantly better than what we’ve got

GraphineOS will partner with a big manufacturer soon, then normies can switch over easier

Do they want more visibility?

To me the Fediverse is like email. Some instances want to grow to as many users as possible. Some are just some dude who has his own email server and uses it for himself.

And everything in between

Either way we’ve got to try, there is a slow shift happening in that direction, and the more that shift the easier it becomes