It's not clear from downloading the mobile app how one would point it to the self-hosted server.
I would gladly pay $10-20/mo for Ente apps to use my own backend. Unfortunately I have around 8TB of photos so paying for a storage plan is out of the question.
This is my question. I don’t actually see any statements from the company here or in the post that you can actually self-host and point the app at your server. The app dumps you in a mandatory sign-up flow with no server url setting possible.
It seems more likely this is only open source for audit/transparency purposes.
It’s absolutely their right to do this, but they should make it clear.