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.
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I tried this but the post are not private even when federation is disabled. The post are publicly visible if you find the URL.
I can select followers only
Oh that is promising...do you know if that can be selected as default or does it always have to be applied per post?
Might be good to create an account and check it out yourself :)
You're awesome. I'll go dig deeper on this :) Thank you
On iOS, Tusker (for Mastodon and Pixelfed) has settings to set the default for composing and replying:
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.
Maybe https://www.kombuchaprivacy.com/circles/ suits your needs. It's cool but not widespread.
Pixelfed is a nice social photo sharing service as others have already said
I'd highly suggest using a service like immich or nextcloud or any other photo software to share images. Use it in combination of a chat app like matrix/element/schildichat
I'm leaning towards Immich at the moment if I can't configure pixelfed to my liking. On the chat side of things that is sort of what we do now but I was wanting something a bit more asynchronous. With chat we can send photos, but what we were wanting is somewhere to just post stuff and other family can view it on their own time or go back and see a previous post. With chat it's a bit too ephemeral for the grandmas and grandpas...they keep asking us to send the same photos because they cant find it in the chat history :/
I'd go with immich
you could setup a matrix chat room and just block federation as viewing the channels requires login
also has e2ee
You could also run a private XMPP chat server. https://snikket.org/ is easy to install and ideal for small family groups.
Why not run Lemmy without federation?
Ive just seen this for nextcloud photos, don't know how its working with mobile apps though
https://github.com/nextcloud/photos/issues/432#issuecomment-1458591601
I currently use Nextcloud and using photos on mobile is rough. Although I had forgotten about that comment feature on files.