I mean, you can just use some simple hard drives if you just want something that works. You can get a terabyte for like 40 bucks nowadays.
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While self hosted will obviously be better, you have to balance that with simplicity for non tech users.
We use the paid app tinybeans. Doing it now, I'd consider hosting a stability photos folder.
Proton offers a cloud photo storage similar to Googles but its all E2EE. A bit clunky compared to google but much more privacy friendly.
it's small though.
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Google Photos works well except it is exactly what you don't want.
Maybe don't share online?
We have a printing center in my area that prints high quality full color photos for 75 cents a page.
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Best guess would be a privacy focused chat app like Signal or Matrix.
Otherwise you may want to look at crypto bases file storage ala Filecoin or potentially even Pixelfed
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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).
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.
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Haven't tried it myself but https://ente.io/ seems to be pretty decent
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Seafile?
This could be a good option. I will have to look into it. I know some of our family is not the most savvy (lucky to be able to use FB) so I may have to look into building a front end on top of it for them, but this is a solid start.
Good luck mate..