Yes you can via a VPN and an “address” in that country. I wouldn’t recommend doing this with your primary google accounts though since you are working their system some they might retort in some way.

I tried this but the post are not private even when federation is disabled. The post are publicly visible if you find the URL.

I thought about this route since I’m using Yunohost for testing at the moment and it has it’s own authentication. But the authentication prevents mobile apps from being able to access the server. Mobile apps are a must for the older people in my family who are less tech able.

I’m leaning towards Immich at the moment if I can’t configure pixelfed to my liking. On the chat side of things that is sort of what we do now but I was wanting something a bit more asynchronous. With chat we can send photos, but what we were wanting is somewhere to just post stuff and other family can view it on their own time or go back and see a previous post. With chat it’s a bit too ephemeral for the grandmas and grandpas…they keep asking us to send the same photos because they cant find it in the chat history :/

Oh that is promising…do you know if that can be selected as default or does it always have to be applied per post?

You’re awesome. I’ll go dig deeper on this :) Thank you

I currently use Nextcloud and using photos on mobile is rough. Although I had forgotten about that comment feature on files.

Does Diaspora have a mobile app? I thought it was only progressive web.

I’m willing to try but I’d be stretching what I know to find that. Might be a good excuse to learn

TL;DR: this is a bug fix release with no new features.