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One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.
Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.
One thing I don't get, if someone could explain it to me, is what's the point of immich over e.g. Nextcloud? Immich is just for photo and video, right? Why not just have a cloud file drive instead? To me, I feel like it's a waste to have both, since I use Nextcloud to both sync my PC and as a secondary backup, in which case I'd have two copies of my photos on my home server if I wanted to use Immich as well. Am I missing something or is it for people with different workflows?
Because it has a lot of photo specific features:
These are just the ones on top of my head, but you'll probably get the idea. If you just want to back up you photos then nextcloud is more than enough, but you'd probably enjoy the immich features once you used them.
Regarding the two copies: you can use immich on an external library, so you don't have to have to copies.
It's like asking why should I use paperless when I can just keep my documents as PDFs in my nextcloud.
The AI search is just crazy, especially when you adjust the model quality.