It sounds great, but Immich wouldn’t be the first to go back on such promises when it becomes convenient. Hopefully thanks to funding via FUTO it might not ever happen, but who knows. Appreciate they write it out, but it is not like that is legally binding.
Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD)
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.
I love this.
Free features, but offering actual useful services for self-hosters (encrypted cloud backup). Great business model for a project like this.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Home assistant is still clean years after introducing nabu casa
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
What is the difference between a paid service and a paywalled service in this case?
sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you don’t want to pay Immich for backups, you can take care of off-site backups yourself using tools like rclone to your hard drive or any off-site storage of your choice. A paywall here would be not allowing offsite backups at all unless you pay Immich.
3abas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I sync with syncthing to an 8tb hard drive at work. Then backblaze that ish.
Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A paid service is something that is going to have running costs on the side of the provider. E.g. the cloud backup means they need to buy/rent storage space. If they were to do something like a service for remote machine-learning (for people that do not have the hardware to properly do that) that would be a running cost of renting gpu-time.
A paywall is a feature that would work perfectly fine without any external factors, but its blocked because you didn’t pay.
Some nuance is needed of course. Often a paid service could be self-hosted (thats why I love being able to self-host the machine learning in immich, with a different design choice that could’ve totally been a paid service).
FundMECFS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah this sort of bitwarden / nextcloud funding model is great IMO.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Having their own flagship instance, like Ente, would go a long way toward providing funding. I bet Ente is making a whole lot more money.
warmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They said they will do that in a FUTO video I can’t find right now.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Cool!
warmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Meanwhile you can check out pixelunion.eu/es/