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[Question] Family oriented social network that is local only

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.

Still ,
@Still@programming.dev avatar

you could setup a matrix chat room and just block federation as viewing the channels requires login

also has e2ee

MangoPenguin ,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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.

terminal OP ,

I tried this but the post are not private even when federation is disabled. The post are publicly visible if you find the URL.

beta_tester ,

I can select followers only

image

terminal OP ,

Oh that is promising...do you know if that can be selected as default or does it always have to be applied per post?

mateomaui ,

On iOS, Tusker (for Mastodon and Pixelfed) has settings to set the default for composing and replying:

https://i.imgur.com/Q9C94xW.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nQiYVio.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/RyTcxYf.jpg

edit: also note that you can set your pixelfed account to private in general, but I think you have to check that box from the website interface. None of the apps I have include that setting.

https://i.imgur.com/j6h87Vt.jpg

mozz ,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

Mastodon, and just turn off federation and registration maybe, and wrap the whole thing in HTTP authentication or something so you don't have to worry about random people finding random holes into read-only access to the content?

terminal OP ,

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.

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