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They today open sourced their server which can now be selfhosted https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/

It's not clear from downloading the mobile app how one would point it to the self-hosted server.

I would gladly pay $10-20/mo for Ente apps to use my own backend. Unfortunately I have around 8TB of photos so paying for a storage plan is out of the question.

This is my question. I don’t actually see any statements from the company here or in the post that you can actually self-host and point the app at your server. The app dumps you in a mandatory sign-up flow with no server url setting possible.

It seems more likely this is only open source for audit/transparency purposes.

It’s absolutely their right to do this, but they should make it clear.

This is currently only supported via build flags.

Addition of an option in-app is being discussed @ https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions/504

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