Maybe it's my 30s talking, but I can't help to be sad at the decline of Facebook the product: there simply was no better way to share photo albums with friends.

Instagram only allows you 10 pictures per album, has no good auto-tagging, and has no good way to download pictures from the app (which causes deep-fried screenshot hell). None of my friends are in Flickr or whatever picture site is common these days.

It's a pity that Facebook the company seems to have prioritised engagement so much over sanity.

As much as Google tends to wiff at anything social, I think Google Photos and iCloud are pretty strong players in album sharing.

+1 for Google Photos. So far at least Google has not messed up with the product and I have seen it getting better and smarter over the years in finding blurs, dupes, fixing light, showing pics to archive, searching by pic keywords, ability to easily share albums and pics etc. All in all a great product!

I don't want my kids pictures to be used for training a military drone AI or some other nightmarish computer vision application. I keep all my photos self hosted. There are a lot options for doing this, I like librephotos: https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos