* reduce usage of my gmail inbox
* purge my photos from google photos
etc.

Time for a homelab - set up any mail-in-a-box solution and Pixelfed for image sharing...

I'm months behind, but somehow this is the first I've heard of Pixelfed.

Though now I'm uncertain what the use case is, at least if I can't depend on finding 20 of my closest friends to begin using it.

Though, on this note, I have been wanting to look into Immich, in an attempt to reduce my reliance on Google Photos.

I don't know that I want to purge my photos from Google Photos, as it provides me with a low-quality backup that's wildly different from my other backups. But any point where I can be more in control of my content, the better.

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Hello Adept!

** On Friday 19.09.25 - 08:06, Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

Time for a homelab - set up any mail-in-a-box solution and Pixelfed for
image sharing...

I'm months behind, but somehow this is the first I've heard of Pixelfed.

Me too. First time here.

Though now I'm uncertain what the use case is, at least if I can't depend on finding 20 of my closest friends to begin using it.

Me too. Not sure I need a dedicated federated system just for
sharing photos. But I suppose the air-gap from traditional
public access to attachments in email and the avoidance of
scrutiny and skimming in the googlephotos system is an
advantage.

Though, on this note, I have been wanting to look into Immich, in an attempt to reduce my reliance on Google Photos.

I don't know that I want to purge my photos from Google Photos, as it provides me with a low-quality backup that's wildly different from my
other backups. But any point where I can be more in control of my content, the better.

Immich is still too new. Hang on to Google Photos.

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Me too. Not sure I need a dedicated federated system just for
sharing photos. But I suppose the air-gap from traditional
public access to attachments in email and the avoidance of
scrutiny and skimming in the googlephotos system is an
advantage.

Yeah, I think the control aspects are probably the main aspects.

But I struggle with the idea that, if I want to share photos or vacation thoughts, or whatever, do I wind up giving people another login, and thus they don't bother ever clicking through?

Or perhaps it doesn't matter, as perhaps it's more for the people I'd actually write direct messages to and chat with for a while.

But, realistically, I don't know that I ever want to put that much effort into it.

Though I'm now at a weird point, because I used to use Facebook, but since they made it a requirement to either pay them or accept the various tracking things (in Europe, anyway), I've just gone with not logging into Facebook.

Though, on this note, I have been wanting to look into Immich, in an attempt to reduce my reliance on Google Photos.

Immich is still too new. Hang on to Google Photos.

Yeah, I'd probably hang on to Google Photos anyway, as that off-site, off-my-servers backup is compelling, as is the ability to search for photos and see the albums I've created over time.

I'm sure Immich has a variety of positive features, but the main one for me is control, as it'd be on my own servers, and if suddenly Google Photos went away, or Google does something awful that means it's time to move all data off their servers, etc., I'd hopefully have something that does most of what Google Photos does.

But, like everything else, it takes time and effort to get things to a usable level. And, e.g., as much as I like Jellyfin, it took a lot more effort to make that usable than to just watch whatever on Netflix or YouTube.

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