@aaronpk #Nextcloud's new photo app is nice (the one in Nextcloud Hub 3). It is self hosted, but there's many places that will host Nextcloud for you, often for free with a limited space.
@aaronpk dropbox or google drive maybe?
@aaronpk by the way. I think on iCloud, via Files. If one person starts the collection, others can add into the public folder. No signup required.
@aaronpk We Transfer ? Never used it. But I do believe other people with massive photo collections use it.
@aaronpk mostly depends on your unspoken of #preferences and #habits in place, naturally. For me: https://code.mro.name/mro/Photos2Atom
@aaronpk I mean.. Nextcloud can be a pain and is kinda basic -- even with the Photos plugin. But the thing is.. Either you have an installation already or you can set one up for little money in a few minutes.
@aaronpk https://piwigo.org/ which you can host yourself or use their hosted version which you pay for. It also has mobile apps if you need them.
@aaronpk gallery.flak.is is Lychee. It's not very good, but it's good enough for precisely the above reason (sharing).
It does geo and search and albums so it's good enough for me.
I also have a smol service set up that feeds it my Syncthing incoming synced images which get imported automatically, that makes it a reasonably "close enough" Google Photos replacement :3