Photos.network

Photos.network is a free and open source, privacy first, self-hosted photo storage and sharing service for fediverse.

Its core features are:

Share photos with friends, family or public
Filter / Search photos by attributes like location or date
Group photos by their content like people or objects
Upload photos and videos without resolution or quality constraints

🧠 Core

This repository contains the core system of the project. It is responsible for main tasks e.g.:

Authentication (validate the identity of users)
Authorization (handle access privileges of resources like photos or albums)
Plugin Handling (extend the feature-set by plugins)
Persistency (read / write data)
Task Processing (keep track of running tasks)

🧪 Development

The core is written in 🦀 Rust and highly customizably by using a Plugin-system.

🔬 Testing

To run tests for all crates in this workspace, run:

$ cargo test --workspace --all-targets

Run continuous checks on a specific crate during development.

$ cargo watch --exec 'test -p media'

📜 Roadmap (MvP)

Create a new media item
Upload one or multiple images
Download a list of owned media items
Download the original file for a specific media item
Authenticate via openID

🧩 Contribution

This is a free and open project and lives from contributions of the community.

See our Contribution Guide

🏛️ License

Photos.network · A privacy first photo storage and sharing service for fediverse
Copyright (C) 2020 Photos network developers

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

photos-network / core