Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton

Zerfallen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Steve@communick.news ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Proton Photos as a simple archive sure. Drive can already do that.

  But they won’t be able to do any of the fancy AI driven features, as they would all require Proton to have direct access to the images. That goes against the whole idea of Proton.

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  • daftwerder@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would be cool if they offered a local client to do the AI processing but it’s not hard to see a few problems with that. It would be pretty difficult to sustain.

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    • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean iOS already does that locally, but since Photos is Apple’s app, unlike other apps, it can run in the background all the time while charging and do the ML stuff

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  • Zerfallen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am not asking for a replacement to Google Drive, since that’s clear, I’m asking for a replacement to Google Photos, which means I’m referring to the functionality that makes Google Photos a separate product to Google Drive (aka, the fancy AI features, automatic image compression, automatic sorting, albums, search, etc).

    I don’t know if it goes against Proton’s philosophy, that’s kind of besides the point. I’m just saying that for me to move from Google’s suite, as I would like to, this would be a blocker for me with Proton. It’s fine if Proton doesn’t want to address that market, it just means I personally would find it difficult to make the switch (and likely wouldn’t) even though I like a lot of what Proton is doing.

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  • hydration9806@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually it is possible to do it locally! A photo management service called Ente.io is already implementing it.

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• HerzogVonWiesel@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can I interest you in a great self-hosted alternative Immich? Been using it for nearly a year now, amd its getting better every few months.

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  • Zerfallen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sure it can work well for many others, so thanks for the recommendation, but personally I’m not interested in self hosting.

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  • stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for this, been looking…

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• akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Proton Drive can already automatically back up your phones photos. What else do you want? Albums?

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  • Zerfallen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All the things that make Google Photos a separate product to Google Drive… that’s what I’m talking about.

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    • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OK, we’ll they’re not going to have that. They’re just not going to implement facial recognition or search images by text or map the photos baed on the geolocation metadata. They’re just fundamentally anti privacy features. I doubt they’d even implement photo editing and callages or whatever

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  • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that works fine.

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have a look at photoprism. It’s self hosted.

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• Confound4082@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They just released one a few months ago

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