People get pretty elitist when it comes to companies in this space. Proton has it’s faults, but it is light years better than google and is offering precisely what you want.

Its easy to sit high and criticize when your hosting everything yourself (I’m guilty of this too), but if you just need to move away from google, proton is vastly better and under one Eco system.

NextCloud was already called out. Its a viable option, but the photos from my self hosting experience suck. Once you get past a certain size, the library chokes on itself.

Idk if I had a nice GPU that wouldn’t be the case, so maybe a paid sub will work out just fine.

Whether it loads or not, it is paywalled

I am extremely privileged as someone from.the States for work for a Norwegian company and spent a lot of time there.

Things like this make me love Norway even more