Image One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.
I’ll include mine to show that it’s not unusual to support them! it’s my favorite and most used self hosted project
screenshot of Immich supporter tag
Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sonofearth@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 3 weeks ago
criticalinvite@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What is it and what does it do?
sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Image Backup* solution — like Google Photos or Ente Photos but self-hosted.
*Backup in the sense of uploading your photos to a server you own. You should backup the database as well as your library with 3-2-1 method.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What 2 different media types are you using for the “2” part?
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Ente is also open source and can be self-hosted.
monogram@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
astro_ray@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
From the logo, it looks like immich
fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Immich! Photo management: immich.app
mittyta@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Immich Google photo self hosted alternative
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
So wait, we hate FUTO but love Immich?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t hate FUTO. Personally, I like the idea of licenses that allow unrestricted private use and modification but forbid commercial exploitation. Those two situations are not equivalent. I realize this is an unpopular opinion in many FOSS circles, but we are already being exploited to death by the rich and powerful and they must not be entitled to the value of our collective free labor. If we ever realize a society in which wealth and power is effectively capped for such entities, then I would change my tune. Until then, fuck them. Our collective software is for the collective, not for wealth hoarders and despots.
droolio@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I find it wild in this day and age how questions like (“why do WE hate” such and such) are being asked in the first place, then answered through one person’s opinion piece mindlessly linked from all angles. Please, for gawd sake, stop listening to random fedditors/redditors about what opinions you should adopt!
IMHO (<- there’s a novel approach), the criticisms of FUTO are just as biased and political as FUTO themselves, and everyone should be sceptical of bias from all sides. Apparently, focusing on ‘privacy, decentralization, and right to repair’ - is being too political, and they’re not allowed to have a philosophical take on what they imagine successful open source to be. (Incidentally, I’m not necessarily on FUTOs side, just pissed off at the nature of social media to obviate the need of critical thinking and make everything black or white.)
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I mean sure but… did you read the piece linked? It backs up it’s claims. Not gonna sit here and act like I verified every single thing linked in the piece but I checked a good handful and it seems pretty straightforward. FUTO is pretty sketchy at the very least, and there’s good reason to consider them a fascist org
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
the criticisms of FUTO are just as biased and political as FUTO themselves,
oh so you’re STUPID stupid
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Immich is actually open source.
houjou@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
May I ask why do we hate FUTO?
nycki@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
they’re wearing the clothes of “open source” but they run like a proverbial nazi bar: drewdevault.com/…/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.h…
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
They’ve been featuring projects on their page that they display their donations on, projects that did not know or outright refused, without their consent or understanding.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The duality of man.
ShadowZone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hmm. While I applaud Immich for existing at all, it kind of feels developed with not me as a user in mind. I have Terabytes of pictures I have taken over the couple of decades of my adult life. They are all neatly organized in folders on my NAS. There is no easy way to just tell Immich “oy, that folder structure? Turn it into albums” I am never going to manually put my 400k+ images into albums. And the folder view in the Android app is behind too many clicks to make it any fun using it.
I guess I have to wrangle with the CLI or something to turn my folders into albums.
But… why??? People use existing file structures. Make it easy for those to integrate into your app.
Nothing of the sort on the roadmap either. Unless integrating folder structures into Immich albums gets more user friendly, I am reluctant to support the devs.
I’ll probably do it anyway because as I said, I’m glad the project exists.
Thanks.
aspoleczny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No problemo! github.com/Salvoxia/immich-folder-album-creator
ShadowZone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sounds exactly like what I need. I’ll give it a try. Thanks a lot!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, ideally something like Immich is just some metadata pointing at existing files. An album should be some combination of synced directories (i.e. new files added outside Immich should be detected and added, if selected) and individual files.
That doesn’t sound that complex. Maybe I’ll look into Immich and see about adding that. I don’t currently use it, but I don’t have an image solution, so I’ll give it a shot.
luftruessel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
rotkehle@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
using it for some months now and it’s pretty much perfect already. never looked back to Google photos.
el_abuelo@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I dont get the “server” vs “individual” support levels? Im an individual and I have a server…but presumably everyone buying immich has a server? Otherwise it’s pointless? Or is it expected that I buy a server package, plus an individual package for each and every user?
I know it’s OSS and so any and all donations are voluntary - just the naming here confuses me.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is just Donation Tiers I think. Maybe the per user thing only hides the “Buy Immich” button for only that specific user.
dallen@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Server is meant for all users of a single server.
So, you could buy 1-3 individual licenses or the server license for 4+ users.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does it support multi-tenancy?
For instance, being a backup and media manager solution for multiple people in my family hosted on one server.
The same with a few friends that want to get out from under Google’s thumb.
Tommelot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It does, but it doesn’t handle encryption at rest. Everyone needs to be aware that the immich admin can see their photos on the disk.
whocares314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really want to use (and support) this, but my case would be the server running on a windows pc with great hardware for all the ML/AI stuff and SSD database storage, but all my media on a NAS. (I’m a flight sim addict, Linux isn’t an option or I’d do it in a heartbeat) Last time I tried, I got the server running in docker pretty easily, but could not for the life of me get my media connected. Any chance that process has improved?
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FWIW you’re probably looking for docs.immich.app/guides/remote-machine-learning namely removing the demanding tasks from the NAS.
whocares314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I know it’s not really adding anything to the conversation but I can’t not say thank you that’s dope.
Redex68@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ooh, that’s really cool
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m running it on in docker and I’ve connected it to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I set it up a few months ago, do it’s better since then.
Don’t even worry about the hardware, I’ve got move set up on a raspberry Pi 5. It’ll take a while to do all the classification on your existing library, but new photos get classified fast enough. You’re unlikely to need to do a smart search immediately after you’ve taken the pic.
For clarity, I’m not on Windows (obv, raspberry Pi), and I’m not using docker directly; I’m running HAOS on my pi, and I’m using the immich add-on. I know it uses docker, but I can’t tell you the exact command to run.
whocares314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s amazing. I have a Pi 4 currently running home assistant and pihole. Sounds like my pi family might be growing soon. Had no idea the 5 could run those features. Appreciate you
Redex68@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One thing I don’t get, if someone could explain it to me, is what’s the point of immich over e.g. Nextcloud? Immich is just for photo and video, right? Why not just have a cloud file drive instead? To me, I feel like it’s a waste to have both, since I use Nextcloud to both sync my PC and as a secondary backup, in which case I’d have two copies of my photos on my home server if I wanted to use Immich as well. Am I missing something or is it for people with different workflows?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Nextcloud is like Google drive, immich is like Google photos.
You’d typically prefer to look at your photo albums in Google photos instead of Google drive.
Chaphasilor@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Same, just bought a server license yesterday!
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I did the same after they revamped the backup functionality in the app, and it now finally seems to be trustworthy enough as my main method to get my pictures from my phone into the cloud. Could finally cancel my Google subscription as well.
rustinmyeye@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I am a supporter and ordered the retro demo disk. Itll be here soon :)
rustinmyeye@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
If it weren’t Docker-dependant, I’d imagine this would be a good FreedomBox app.
qweertz@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Sounds more like a Freedombox problem for not supporting one of the best ways to run sevrer software ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As someone who only used the stock synology app and has always wanted to try something else, what features and things does this do better? I am close to trying it out just to see. Im sure it will solve my 1 big issue where I can’t control the location of photos that default to my application storage, which is pretty small, instead of my actual storage array.
pfr@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Same bro, just became a supporter myself. Worth every dollar!
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
im like maybe one of few people who barely take photos. its great because i dont need to worry about the costs of cloud storage
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is it better than NC?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I dearly wish to use and support this app.
But here’s the thing: containers - like so many other mechanisms - suffer from supply-chain risks due to reduced validation to the degree assumed and required compared to, say, good packaging that integrates with the resident source of truth on a given system. Containers, like so many other risky mechanisms that dates back to CPAN or earlier, cannot exist in a secure environment.
For those of us working where we can to minimize repair/recovery work through best practice, Immich cannot be run.
I know there’s a homebrew workaround, but given it’s external to the dev effort it’s a risk that it won’t suddenly work as a reliable update resource; and that risk stymies uptake for us.
Now, I know I’ve suggested there’s imperfection in a number of favourite technologies and methods, and that’s fine. If downvotes is how you defend these sacred cows, I understand.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yup, purchased myself 2 days ago. Absolutely deserve all of the support!
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s a photo album? I kept hearing about it. I’ve been using a combo of just plain files, and sometimes nextcloud. Immich sounds like something to look into.
mlg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How does it compare to Photoprism? Been on that solution for a while and I really like it, but have seen lots of people suggest Immich as well.
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Buying my copy soon!
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the reminder, done as well :)
oeuf@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Immich sounds great.
Does it have E2EE? I rent a VPS and would prefer personal files that I have on it to be protected.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Seriously everyone pushes Immich so hard I’m a little suspicious of it now :D
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The fediverse is small and the Immich dev is one of our own, not surprising that it’s super popular
___@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
83k Github stars in under 4 years is definitely indicative of an excellent project
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Github stars are indicative of nothing
madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.
The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.
I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.
fragrantvegetable@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?
KennyBell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Any suggestions and estimate pricing?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
Yeah. I just put the media location on my nas, and that is being mirrored to hetzner.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It’s just that good
pineapple@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Shhhh! No one can no we are all being played by the immich overlords.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I found it a couple of months ago without hearing about it before. I was in an ideal place for a Google Photos replacement.
There’s a couple of rough edges but it is, indeed, best-of-class.
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yeah :) Maybe give lychee a try :) it’s minimalistes and does one thing, but it does it well !!!
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
As a newbie in selfhosting, Immich is what I use almost every day. And it is so good. A literal Google Photos but it’s my own. Snappy web app and android app. Has epic face recognition, contextual search and now even text recognition. All that on an efficient and not so powerful N100 cpu. I can totally see why community loves it.