After stopping for years because it was hard to view them easily, I'm finally taking photos again because of Immich.
Alex Tran (Immich lead) really took it up a notch or two when FUTO "acquired" the project. The FUTO model is interesting in showing another successful way to grow & support FLOSS till self-sustainability.
Honestly, thank you for making me feel marginally better about the disgustingly lazy, shortsighted, stupid etc. practice of using Google Photos even though they are waiting with bated breath to report me to the cops because I took a picture of my son to send to his doctor[1], before banning my whole account.
Migrating to Immich, 2026, hold me to it please lazy me! Oh how’s the search? (Too lazy to label anything so rely on Google Spyware for text & object recognition search when iOS fails. Take photos every day of my life so plenty to trawl through.)
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
The search is amazing, you search for "cat" and you get back all the cats.
So you can search “black cat on blue carpet in the morning” and expect to see a result (if it exists)
I didn't know it was that good! Wow.
...especially cause he's stuck with Yahoo (actually do remember that detail from the story, and that people give him a hard time for it)