I think it’s too empty a lot of times. Mainstream topics are nicely populated but a vast amount of specific communities are just one person posting links over and over with a handful of upvotes and zero comments. Sometimes I see posts here and have to go to Reddit to see what the community thinks about it, because on Lemmy the post is completely dead.

I see. I’m fairly new to this, obviously. Appreciate the context.

Very interesting, saving this as I’m planning to migrate to Immich too but I’m still in the uhemm… conceptual phase…

One question not really related to the core of your post: is running Immich in a VM inside a VM fine in terms of performance? I seem to remember somewhere someone saying that something as resource intensive as Immich would be severely hindered in a VE

The stack is Proxmox running […] a Debain VM. The Debian VM runs docker where Immich runs.