But ISTR reading Immich kinda assumes the storage is on a plain local filesystem so you get perf issues if you do something clever under its feet. Could be out of date on that.
I feel like it may be different enough that it's just not worth doing for Immich. To me, if you want the convenience of Immich in a trusted server, then Immich is great. If you want to host on an untrusted server, Ente is more to the point.
Those are two different models:
- With Immich, the server can do a lot of stuff (like processing on the images) but at the cost of the server accessing the images.
- With Ente, the server cannot access the images (that's the feature) but at the cost of not being able to do that kind of processing.
I am happy both exist, I think there is space for both.