Hey selfhosters,
I’m looking for some help finding a selfhosted local only social network with mobile apps (for the less tech savvy).
Basically my family lives all over the place and we want an easy way to share photos of our children and family events with comments and engagement. We are privacy minded and don’t want pictures of our kids drifting over a social network. I’m struggling to find any software that is always local only and private.
Somethings I have seen that seem promising but not quite right:
- Secure Scuttlebutt Apps
- Mastodon +Hometown
- Immich
- Just a plane old blog
Hometown is almost perfect but it still allows for federation and that will be hard to teach some of my family about. Immich looks great! But doesn’t have anyway to engage nor feed.
Hopefully someone out there knows of something. Ideally it would have an interface like social media without the intent to reach the wider world outside of my family.
You could run pixelfed without federation enabled: https://pixelfed.org/
It’s like instagram, so should be good for sharing photos and stuff with space for comments.
I tried this but the post are not private even when federation is disabled. The post are publicly visible if you find the URL.
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I thought about this route since I’m using Yunohost for testing at the moment and it has it’s own authentication. But the authentication prevents mobile apps from being able to access the server. Mobile apps are a must for the older people in my family who are less tech able.
you could setup a matrix chat room and just block federation as viewing the channels requires login
also has e2ee
You could also run a private XMPP chat server. https://snikket.org/ is easy to install and ideal for small family groups.
Why not run Lemmy without federation?
Maybe Diaspora?
Does Diaspora have a mobile app? I thought it was only progressive web.
Ive just seen this for nextcloud photos, don’t know how its working with mobile apps though
https://github.com/nextcloud/photos/issues/432#issuecomment-1458591601
I currently use Nextcloud and using photos on mobile is rough. Although I had forgotten about that comment feature on files.