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cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/1225798

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I'm really excited about such a large project adopting semver! I never got the trend for software without a need for rapid release cycles adopting purely time-based version numbers.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What is the difference between a paid service and a paywalled service in this case?

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you don’t want to pay Immich for backups, you can take care of off-site backups yourself using tools like rclone to your hard drive or any off-site storage of your choice. A paywall here would be not allowing offsite backups at all unless you pay Immich.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I sync with syncthing to an 8tb hard drive at work. Then backblaze that ish.

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago

A paid service is something that is going to have running costs on the side of the provider. E.g. the cloud backup means they need to buy/rent storage space. If they were to do something like a service for remote machine-learning (for people that do not have the hardware to properly do that) that would be a running cost of renting gpu-time.

A paywall is a feature that would work perfectly fine without any external factors, but its blocked because you didn't pay.

Some nuance is needed of course. Often a paid service could be self-hosted (thats why I love being able to self-host the machine learning in immich, with a different design choice that could've totally been a paid service).