If no data reaches the US (because it’s self hosted) and no money goes to the US (because it’s open source), does it matter that the developers are in the US?
It probably doesn’t, and that was not my point. I am okay using US soft if it’s open source. That said US based project might be under certain pressures from the govt which adds a slight amount of uncertainty.
Just FYI both ente and immich are US based, open source and both can be selfhosted. I tried both and they are both good.
If no data reaches the US (because it’s self hosted) and no money goes to the US (because it’s open source), does it matter that the developers are in the US?
It probably doesn’t, and that was not my point. I am okay using US soft if it’s open source. That said US based project might be under certain pressures from the govt which adds a slight amount of uncertainty.
Ente can be self hosted?
Yes and they made it super easy. I mean kudos to ente basically making it easy not to pay them (I pay them anyway 😀)
https://ente.com/help/self-hosting/
Yup! I run it on my VPS for my family with an Exoscale S3 bucket, it’s excellent. I only pay for the storage we use.
https://ente.com/blog/self-hosting-quickstart/