Figured I’d ask here as thought self-hosters would care most about looking after their photos.

What do you do with friends’ photos you’d like to keep hold of? Maybe there’s a pic on a chat app or they’ve sent you a link to an album on google photos.

Would you just throw into your own pile of photos or do you carefully adjust metadata to indicate who took them? Just use dirs to separate them from your own? Interested in any and all thoughts.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    If they’re sharing it with me, then sure, I’ll add it to the folder for that party, holiday, event

    Immich would scan it and faces are taken care of and if there’s metadata in there, great, if not, dunno if I could be bothered to edit it… maybe date stamp if that was wildly off.

  • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Figured I’d ask here as thought self-hosters would care most about looking after their photos.

    Couldn’t be more wrong in my case. I host immich so I don’t have to worry about taking care of my photos. I hate taking care of my photos. I hate organizing them, and almost never go back to look at them anyways. Immich just yeets them onto my NAS and I can use visual search to sometimes find what I’m looking for with nearly zero effort from me.

    All of that, to answer your question, I just throw them on Immich and they appear on the timeline in roughly the correct spot. I also will often share a link, asking friends and family to upload to my Immich server.

  • ISolox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Highly recommend using Immich and just creating a separate account(s) for your friend(s). You can even set storage quotas for each individual person.