Pika

This. Next cloud was /so/ slow and bloaty for me when I tried it. I also got turned away by their lack of ambition with security that went through lemmy about a year ago. I don’t like that they were advertising an encryption feature and then not actually encrypting anything past the first folder level. The feature is fixed now I believe but I didn’t like the how nom-chalant that process went. Especially for a program that seems to want to be commercial.

Maybe the slowness was fixed, I should look into it again but my main use case was file storage/backup and syncthing more than manages that with way less overhead

I synced immich to authentik post deployment no issue, but I believe my email matched. I don’t recall if I had to configure my user account ontop of the oauth settings or not, I believe it was smart enough to link the same email to the account.

If you are using a VM style deployment you could run a snapshot of the immich server ahead of time then just rollback if it fails. That’s what I do for all services when changing stuff.

I’m in this same boat as well. As someone who ran an XMPP server in the past, then stopped and eventually moved onto Matrix. I have to hard agree, in my experiences, XMPP was so much better administration side than having to deal with matrix, and its quite a bit more fleshed out(not to mention the sheer amount of clients available) Being able to just log into a management panel and have the panel do everything administration wise for me was super nice, instead of having to ask “is this only available via the API or is it available via a client or is this config only”, these types of tools from what I’ve seen don’t really exist for matrix.

This is both my sister and mom. They will hard rush you every step of the way, and then it is always them that forgot something.