Non-Technical Family Members Refuse to Adopt Self-Hosted Photo Storage
Technical users who self-host photo solutions like Immich or Nextcloud cannot get family members to stop defaulting to iCloud or Google Photos. The friction is not in the hosting but in the onboarding and daily UX for non-technical users.
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