Ente Photos v1
90 points by knl
90 points by knl
Huh. From their page on reliability:
Varying SLAs: Not all customers might want the 3x protection that we provide, and some might be okay with reduced protection if it reduces the plan price. So we intend to make it possible for customers to opt into lesser, or different, replica choices. Indeed, one exciting direction here is to allow for customers to opt into blockchain storage (in addition to the primary replicas) if they wish.
What does “blockchain storage” mean? Why would I want my photos… on a public ledger?
Hi, author of the story here.
Your photos are end-to-end encrypted on Ente. At the time the document around reliability was written, we were exploring Filebase as an additional replica that interested customers could opt-in to. We’ve since dropped the thread due to the ambiguity around availability, data retention and long-term privacy implications (say cryptography were to break – although then the world would have bigger problems to deal with).
We’ll update the document to reflect this. Thanks!
What a coincidence. Just yesterday I got a copy of all my photos stored on Google. I was looking to use Immich until now, but Ente looks really polished!
I started using Immich a couple of weeks ago and it works quite well!
My main motivation is to reduce the quantity of data stored on my mobile devices. Since I am self-hosting it, the E2E is not that appealing to me.
I would be interested in how it compares to Immich. In general I am looking for a solution to self-host pictures, but I don’t know what else is out there besides these two solutions.
Haven’t tried it, but apparently ente is self-hostable, which I find interesting.
A nice feature which Ente seems to have is S3 compatibility, which I found lacking in some alternatives.
Proud user of Ente for several months. Migrating my whole family to it.
I’m missing a way to simply synchronise the whole family to a hard disk, with a command line.
Hi, one of the folks working on Ente here!
You could use our CLI to add all of your family’s accounts and write a script to incrementally export their data at a frequency you’d like, to a folder you’d like.