Use xnview which is open source to detect and remove duplicates before importing in Immich. Immich can also detect duplicates but it would to have to create lots of thumbnails for nothing.

If a picture don’t trigger an emotion or you’re not on it, think that you could get it from internet in better quality.

Cleaning is important and will help to keep backup tidy.

I don’t like personally to import in Immich, I use external library. Yes a pain in the ass to make folders but if Immich disappear, I won’t be locked in there.

I went through many rss self hosted reader and now use commafeed, use java and quarkus and run beautifuly in docker, the client is web based and is responsive. In iOS i can’t tell it is not a native app.

No clarity on code status, seems not open source and author may want to charge later. I refuse to beta test for him and being forced to pay later for the privilege