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submitted 6 months ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm thinking seriously about getting Google out of my life, and trying NextCloud.

Looking to get a personal account through a managed provider.

Does anyone have any experience with it?

How does it compare to ownCloud?

Any hosts I should look at or avoid?

Any apps I should get for it, or avoid?

Any issues I should be aware of before I switch?

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[-] ajsadauskas@aus.social 3 points 6 months ago

@denshirenji @asklemmy On photos, does NextCloud Photos or Memories play nice with Digikam or any other desktop photo gallery applications? And what about Immich?

[-] denshirenji@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Same person answering from Lemmy because character limit.

I don't know much about digiKam, but looking at it got me interested in checking it out! One problem I have with Immich is that there is really good Android integration with its app, but poor Desktop integration (I use a web app).

For Immich, I suppose you could mount an external library and use that same folder for digiKam. Immich will store its own set of files in its data structure for the external library, not the pictures just it's own metadata as I understand it. Any changes will be reflected in Immich after a library scan. (I will be trying this option soon.๐Ÿ˜)

You could do the same with Nextcloud by just mounting the Nextcloud drive and setting its photos folder as the folder for digiKam, I suppose. You would be losing out mainly on Android integration with the Immich app. I can't whatever the opposite of recommend the Nextcloud options enough.

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Immich to an NFS share that's exposed to the nextcloud container is very seamless to the end user and can be setup in the external sources in the nextcloud web gui.

[-] denshirenji@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Smart! Since posting my answer, I've been looking at it and I was planning in doing just that or something similar. I already upload my photos to Nextcloud just as a backup mechanism without the Photos app installed. I could easily set this up tonight to test. Thanks for the tip!

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