Our photographs are not raw material for someone else’s empire.
We made photographs of our friends, our work, our lives. Then came models trained on images gathered at a scale most of us had barely begun to understand. Now we have to question whether what we’re looking at ever happened.
We have a right to take back control of our vision. Of what we put on a screen, what we print, and what we choose to remember.
AI is not the enemy.
The manipulation of reality is. So is a business model that treats every photograph as a resource to extract, every photographer as a recurring payment, and every exit as a threat to revenue.
Runaway capitalism, corporate control and lock-in have made a habit of calling dependency a service. I don’t want to build another version of that.
You shouldn’t have to rent your way back into your own work.
Your archive holds years of decisions. The colors you chose. The frames you kept. The way you learned to see. Leaving a piece of software should not mean abandoning that work.
That is why migration matters to RedLnx. Why the editing happens on your computer. Why the source is open. And why paying is a choice.
No one left behind.
If you can support the work, thank you. If you can’t, use the software. You get the same tools. Your photographs matter just as much.
RedLnx is released under AGPL-3.0. You can inspect it, learn from it and build on it under its license. That freedom is part of the project.
It exists because others shared their work first. darktable, Immich and the wider open-source community made this possible. I take that debt seriously.
No one chained to a subscription.
RedLnx belongs to everyone.
Daniele Di Egidio
Photographer. Developer. Antifascist.