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Family photo sharing? (self.privacy)

submitted 7 months ago by Adalast to c/[email protected]

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My son was just born, and while a few photos will go on the likes of Facebook and Instagram, overall my partner and I are wanting to keep our shared photos private from the EULA abuses that we all know and hate.

Does anyone here have any good suggestions? I would create my own front end, but I can't swing hosting or a static IP to do it from my local box. Are there any companies out there who aren't total shit bags who claim immediate irrevocable license to all of my photos to do with whatever the fuck they please?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I know you said you can't do your local box, but there's no necessity for a static IP to do that. Dynamic DNS is relatively easy to set up, I suppose provided you have a domain name you own (which you can find for very reasonable prices).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Or setup Tailscale and enable the Funnel feature for whatever service you want to expose.

This way it's a bit more secure, since the exposed endpoint is hosted by Tailscale and routed to your device via your Tailscale (encrypted) network.

Using Funnel, no one needs to have the Tailscale client.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Dynamic DNS only works if your IP is publicly routable. My ISP (not sure about OP) puts us behind NAT, so the only way to expose services on my network is through a tunnel, like a VPN.

But many ISPs do provide a routable IP. My last ISP did, so it's not uncommon.

And you don't necessarily need to own an IP, services like FreeDNS let you use a subdomain from someone else, but a domain can be as little as $1/year (for TLDs like .site and .store), so it's probably better to just get one. I have like 10 domains, and they only cost $10/year each or so. But if you just want to try out hosting something, using someone else's isn't a bad way to go.