Are private Pixelfed photos encrypted?
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Meaning, you’d know it because every time you want to view the encrypted file you’d be prompted for that key (password) to continue.
Not necessarily. If you had a separate password to decrypt private images, you'd just have to enter it once at login or upon viewing the first private, encrypted photo.
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The best place to privately store anything is on your own machine, not anyone else's.
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If you are looking for open-source end to end encrypted photo storage then Ente or Stingle are what you want.
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No ActivityPub-based services are really private. There is no mechanism for end-to-end encryption, access-listed posts, or even true DMs. ActivityPub is intended as a microblogging-style publishing service with interaction built in, with privacy not being in the spec’s scope.
Maybe some day they’ll retrofit privacy to the protocol, but that would involve reengineering it to handle key management and end-to-end encryption, which would be a hard problem.
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No. As drspod said Immich is good. But you may want to check out Ente too. The servers/clients are open source and its encrypted. And for a free plan i'd say its quite good.
Personally use it, no qualms here.
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I was more looking for social media rather than a private cloud image storage, I'll probably still go ahead with using Pixelfed. I was just hoping it wouldn't be possible for the host, to take everyone's private photos and dump them online if they wanted to.
I guess Instagrams level of privacy would be the similar and employees at Meta would be able to look at people's private photos too.
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PixelFed is not supposed to be for storing private photos. That's what Immich is for.
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Pixelfed isn't private. Mastodon isn't private. Lemmy isn't private. All privacy is account privilege based.
The person who's paying for the hard drive gets to see what's on it.
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That's what I said tho.
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Didn't the Instagram admins do that too?
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and even then, only Ente does actual encryption on your photos.
