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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.
I've been at it for years. It takes time and effort and learning to do, and I'll be the first to help people who post questions here to Lemmy for self hosting.
FOSS is a community like any other with good and bad apples in it. You can learn a ton from the community and take control of your own data if you want to.
I find it very rewarding and fun, but if you expect me to write a full how to every time I mention that I self host that's a little crazy. I'll happily answer anyone's questions and share my knowledge but I'm not just gonna dump six-ish years of my notes in a comment.