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Alternative to Google Photos (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org

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So I'm looking to disconnect myself from Google and their tracking (as much as possible) and I was thinking about installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. I mostly use my phone for Lemmy, Signal, NewPipe and taking photos. The last one is my biggest bother at the moment. The Google Photos environment is so convenient - I take a photo, it uploads it to my Google Photos collection, and after a while, it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup. Is there a functionality like this disconnected from Google that I would be able to implement on my GrapheneOS phone? I'm looking to invest in the Proton environment (mainly Mail and Drive) so I could use that for storage. Cheers

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[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Syncthing is another good option. I've never used NextCloud, though, so I'm not sure which is better.

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Syncthing is great if you wanna to sync everything inside a folder, i've used in the past to backup savefiles of drm free games, but for photos nextcloud is a better option since work almost the same as google photos auto finding the folder with images and asking kf you wanna to sync them instead of doing manually