Flickr alternative
A Flickr alternative
on your own domain.
Retro Photo Blogging. No Algorithm.
What’s new is old again. Nothing here is an invention: the single-photo blog, long-form posting, classic Insta, Picasa-style albums — all of it used to belong to photographers. We’re giving it back, on hardware you control, where nobody can take it again.
Your photos. Your voice. Your style. Your dignity.
Flickr was the place. Some of us have a decade or two there, and every couple of years somebody new buys it and we all hold our breath. You are tired of holding your breath. We know; we were too.
SnapSmack moves the whole archive — titles, descriptions, tags, upload dates, the views you earned, the comments people left, the faves — onto a site you own, on a domain you own, and it doesn’t reset the clock. Twenty years still reads as twenty years. There’s even a skin called SLICKR for when familiarity is part of the plan. Subtle, we are not.
The part of Flickr that was actually people comes too — your site is on the fediverse, so anyone on Pixelfed, Mastodon, or the rest can follow, fave, and comment from where they already are. Groups are the honest gap: nothing on the fediverse does them the way Flickr did, and we won’t pretend a directory and a weekly challenge are the same thing. Nobody can buy this out from under you, though.
Highlights
- YoursYou host it. You own the art. No company, no tiers, no upsell, no “we’ve updated our terms.”
- Four ways to scoreOne photo at a time, the classic grid, writing with photographs in it, or SMACKTHEMUP: simplified, self-hosted public photo sharing for friends and family. Pick the way you always shared.
- Get in, get outImport Instagram, Flickr and Blogger with dates and captions intact. Leave any time with everything, in a form other software reads.
- SkinsReal sites, real archives, and nothing that looks like a template.
- Not aloneYour site is on the fediverse. People on Mastodon, Pixelfed and the rest can follow, like, boost, and reply to your work while it stays on your server. Plus a directory of photoblogs worth browsing and a weekly challenge.
- Desktop suiteA free non-destructive photo editor, batch publishing, backup, import and export tools. Windows and Linux.
- Locked downReal security, publicly audited. If something goes wrong you hear it from us the day we know — not two weeks later.
- AI insideCaptions, alt text, looks, a skin designer. Five providers, your own key, your call. It’s the intern, not the boss.
- Cheap to runShared hosting, small footprint, upload and go. Run several sites from one desk.
- Not a companyBuilt by a working photographer who uses it every day, under a licence that stops anyone fencing it off.
Nobody’s buying it.Nobody’s sunsetting it.It’s yours.
Request your Flickr download, point FLKR FCKR at it, and go make a cup of tea. A two-day transfer that dies on hour nineteen resumes at hour nineteen.
Built by a photographer, not a company. Ask him anything — he’s rude but he answers.