• grue@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m looking a for photo-storage option for the long-run.

    Open-source is not a must

    If you’re looking for anything “for the long run” then open source should be a must, because everything else will eventually become unsupported and without source code access you’d have no recourse to continue maintaining it.

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      8 months ago

      Agree for self-hosted apps. However I’m also looking for a service like that one by ente.io. Here it’s more important that they continue to operate. Sure, with open-source you can self-host or find someone else, but this only works if the service is popular. Less popular open source apps disappaer when the developer gives up. The code would still available, but no one will keep it up-to-date.

      • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        And exactly this is why I use Google Photos in addition to hosting Photoprism. Google photos is too big to disappear overnight, but over the years I’ve seen nearly every open-source app I use go through the cycle of lost development interest. Eventually a dependency breaks and you’re back to searching for a new open source alternative or coffee to manually use some outdated dependency which from a security standpoint isn’t great.