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I have been self-hosting Zusam for sharing photos of kids with the family. After a bit of a chat with the dev I forked the web app and started smashing in new features and customising it to work more how I want it to work, to be my vision instead of his. It's a heavier webapp than Zusam's very light one but it works well I reckon. It just sits over Zusam kind of like how alternate UIs work in Lemmy.
That's been my determined focus the last week or so, but I'm probably about to stop for 6 months because that's how I roll.