So that if there's a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn't go to and they detected you're most likely a fan, they'll gen AI a photo of you at the concert
If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they'll gen AI one for you
If like Japan but haven't been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there
They're literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao
People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there's no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not
You can self-host Ente if you need similar functionality to Google/iCloud Photos.
There's also Immich, which is scheduled to become stable this year, so no more breaking changes with updates. I've been hosting it for the last year and it's still undergoing rapid development, but other than that, it's been great for me.
Honestly in the past 6 months or so since I started using it there's been like one or two breaking changes and those were at the start, no breaking changes for many months now.
Never used it but looks cool af. I've sent my resume in before but they're not hiring :(
I'm trying to self host more and more, thanks for this it looks dope as hell.
I need to suck it up and get myself a dedicated server instead of running everything off my wife's gaming rig lol.
hopefully they add multiple instance support to the frontend because currently the backend url is hardcoded in an env var
nbd to host your own frontend but because the mobile apps are built from the same code you have to sideload a separate mobile app you build yourself if you're self-hosting. which like i can do that pretty easy but probably a bridge too far for my partner, much less my folks.
they did just open-source the server this spring so hopefully multi-backend support is on their roadmap