In mexico most (if not all) cell service providers give social media for free, ie it uses no data in your phone plan.

What is social media, according to these companies? Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram. That’s it. Everyone uses Facebook marketplace and WhatsApp for everything, because it’s “free”.

I think most people don’t understand the stranglehold Meta has over a huge portion of the world’s population. I’m confident this arrangement is not only going on in mexico.

I run docker services and host virtual machines from Unraid OS

There is also a snap version of immich, makes all the pain go away… at least, the snap version hasn’t had any breaking updates for me yet. It just keeps working.