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10. Contacts

The beautiful things about Ente compared to other self hosted personal media applications is that it also offers you a social graph. That means you and friends and family of yours can also comment, like and share your albums and photos. It basically becomes a private social media where each albums is only shared with people you want it to be shared with or for who it is relevant. 

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Even though Ente is beautiful to self host it is not a federated nor decentralized application. All is depended on a single instance. If your instance goes down then so do all of your photos and videos.

  1. This also means that social graphs only work for people subscribed to the same instance
  2. Hence, if you want to add a contact or want to share an album with a friend of yours they need to be subscribed to the same instance. 
  3. This is radically different from standard  social graphs where everyone sits on the same instance e.g Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and others

With that out of the way