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>>birdcu+(OP)
Self hosting used to mean conceding on something. I can honestly say Immich is better in every way than Google Photos or whatever Apple calls it. The only thing is having to set it up yourself.

>>WD-42+yxj
How does sharing an album with others work on Immich?

>>ptk+tCj
You get a link and you can set read or write permissions on it.

Whoever gets that link can browse it in a web browser.

I've used this to share albums of photos with gatherings of folks; it works very well. It does assume you have your Immich installation publicly available, however. (Not open to the public, but on a publicly accessible web server)

>>jasonj+zDj
OK. Then you concede your security, as I can't imagine any single person self-hosting can be better at keeping their public service more secure than engineers at Google can. Especially with limited time.

>>cromka+8Vj
If you're not Cloudflare averse...

Setup immich VM or docker container with a cloudflare tunnel

Front access with Cloudflare Access (ZeroTrust) for free.

Set "can only be accessed by users with email = xyz@myuser”

Done.

Now assuming this is the same user email as the one you shared photos with, there is a base level of security keeping the riffraff away.

Home IP is never exposed either, because it's proxied through the cf tunnel.