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I recently looked into both Immich and Ente.io for syncing and also sharing photos since 1) Syncthing has been rather unreliable for me in the last year, 2) my photo library has become too big to just sync it across devices, 3) I was never really happy with NextCloud for sharing photos.

Immich looked really nice but in the end I went with Ente because of its E2E encryption. So far I'm really happy!

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In order to give Ente a try I self hosted it. It's working great. The initial interest was also E2E encryption.

The backing Minio store is on a VPS to keep it off-prem. The rest (front end UI etc) I host in my home and use the same VPS as a reverse proxy.

Right now I don't share with anyone else, but use it to get photos sync'd off my phone and shared with my own desktop/tablets.

I'm sticking with it and my family is interested in using as part of degoogle'ing. So I eventually will pay for it for a way to better share photo albums (i.e. too many photos to just share over Signal).

How has syncthing been unreliable for you? Curious as I was going to start using it more. Was it something about large files or many files?

Not op but personally I don’t really trust syncthing on iOS. Something about how Möbius sync works on the apple OS makes it so occasionally my folders disappear locally on my phone, triggering a deletion on all other devices.

It used to work very reliably for many years and I used it for pretty much everything (photos, ebooks, notes, Signal backups, …). However, last fall it simply stopped syncing (traffic at 0 B/s) in 90% of the cases, no matter the file size, even though my devices see each other and Syncthing recognizes that files are out of sync. I have already reset and reinstalled Syncthing various times – no idea what's going on.

My gut feeling says that it's the Android client[0], but I'll have to find the time to look into this more closely.

[0]: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

I've also encountered this periodically and the way I've gotten things back to normal was to 'reset database' in Syncthing-Fork's troubleshooting settings. Is that what you meant by reset?

Not quite, I just purged the app from my phone entirely, including all settings, and then reinstalled it.

I think it's better to use immich with tailscale

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