Copying this from Reddit (I still get the daily emails). Since I no longer post there, I figured I would ask here, and include my prediction: Will be more popular, possibly in stable release. Still won’t be able to rotate photos natively.

  • conrad82@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I tried it briefly, but when I realized I could not easily sync a bunch of my pictures from server to new phone, I lost interest and went back to syncthing

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      Just out of curiosity, what’s the use case for having all your photos actually on the phone as opposed to remote access from your phone?

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        Backup, redundancy, easy access… If my server goes down I don’t have the time to fix it at the moment.

        Also the photos app on my phone is quite good, so I find it very easy to find old pictures quickly.

        I also prefer offline-capable solutions

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        If the internet disappears or you lose access to it for some reason, you can still see your photos.

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          You can survive a day trip without access to your photos. We managed just fine before smartphones brought that practice into the mainstream.

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              That would be an insane amount of phone storage. I don’t think a single available smart phone could sync an entire professional library of photos. Especially considering how large each photo is.

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              A professional photographer doesn’t use cloud storage to store the GBs of RAW files from their shoots

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                Why not? They absolutely should be using something like Backblaze. In fact someone who has digital photos as their business would be dumb not to use cloud storage.

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                  You’re not uploading to Backblaze or Immich or GPhotos or whatever as your primary backup storage. You’re dumping the SD cards, or saving RAW files directly, onto a fileserver or computer of some sort.

                  Nobody in their right mind would use Immich or GPhotos for that kind of thing, which is what this chain was about. Backblaze is a completely different scenario, for backing up data after the fact.

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      You can still use Syncthing to pull photos back to the phone, Immich just stores them in organized directories as normal files.