Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my library because I saw this video by Jared Henderson warning of the change and downloaded all
  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That’s an interesting point…

    I’d like to share some (holiday) photos with my friends & family, so I can put those onto Pixelfed / Friendica / etc… I don’t necesarily want to share all the photos…

    And that’s using the cloud.

    Job Done. The self-hosting + federated cloud future is here!

    Rejoice.

    • nixfreak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      I self host seafile server and use seafile app to sync taken photos on my iPhone to the server. Then you could (haven’t yet) setup a photo hosting service

    • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      The photo sharing complaint I don’t understand, unless immich doesn’t have the option to provide public or password protected share and upload links, which would be a real shortcoming for such app.

      • Burnoutdv@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        Immich indeed has that option, I use it frequently. Password protection and upload option

      • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        I’ve not looked into it properly yet, but - considering this is still free software - I don’t believe that level of granularity exists.

        So, if I wanted to share my holiday photos from last week with 1 friend, and the photos from someone’s party to different friends… nope.