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I'm looking for something that can replace Google Photos. I found out about Ente through F-Droid, and based on what I see on their website, it appears to be a good alternative. I'm not looking for anything special. Just something that will allow me to backup and sync my photos across devices.

Does anyone here have experience with Ente? If so, can you please tell me the pros and cons?

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago

They have a free level, so you can just sign up and try it out.

I would say the main thing that I noticed different from other services is that the end to end encryption means you can't stream videos. So when you're browsing your family videos, it has to download the whole video before it will play. This will leave you waiting a few seconds or more compared to big tech non-encrypted video playing which will stream so will start faster.

Other than that, they seem good-intentioned, they have been around a while, their product seems high quality, and if I wasn't self hosting I'd probably use them.

Though I do have questions about their other product, a cloud-synced 2FA. I might be missing something but if I can log in to their website to see my 2FA codes then it doesn't seem very 2FA.

[–] youRFate@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

The pricing seems realistic, about 2x of wasabi s3 storage wise, but I assume they also do some server side processing like search features and format conversions, so seems okay.

[–] auf@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is it self-hostable? I couldn't find the docs.

[–] user83639361@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] auf@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

ugh, I don't want to upload my private photos to unknown server...

[–] heygooberman@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not looking to self-host.

[–] auf@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago