Miru is live
Miru is a place to keep photographs.
That sounds modest, and it is meant to. Most services that store your pictures want to be something else as well — a feed, an assistant, a marketplace for prints. Miru stores your pictures, shows them to you beautifully, and shares them only when you say so.
Private until you say otherwise
Uploading is not posting. Your library is yours: every photograph, every album, every RAW file sits privately until you explicitly create a post from it. There is no algorithm deciding who sees what, because there is no algorithm.
When you do share, you choose how. Public, or behind a password on a link you can send to a family member, or to your followers, and nothing else changes about where the file lives.
Your originals stay your originals
What you upload is what you get back. Byte for byte — the same file, the same checksum, whether it is a 60-megapixel RAW or a video off a phone. Miru generates its own display copies at several sizes and leaves the original alone, forever, and you can download it at any time.
The display copies have their metadata removed. All of it: camera, lens, settings, and the GPS coordinates that would otherwise tell a stranger where you live. That information is read once, stored in your library so you can search by it, and never served with an image.
Followable from the fediverse
Every Miru account is an ActivityPub actor. Someone on Mastodon can search for you, follow you, and see your public posts in their timeline. They do not need an account here. You do not need one there.
This is not a bridge or an export. It is how sharing works underneath — posts are activities, comments are notes, likes are likes. The fediverse is the sharing layer rather than a feature bolted onto one.
What it costs
Five gigabytes free, and paid plans from S$4.99 a month up to five terabytes. Prices are in Singapore dollars and the pricing page shows exactly what each plan grants — those figures come from the same place the quota does, so the page and your account cannot disagree.
What is not here yet
Miru cannot follow other servers. You can be followed from Mastodon and Pixelfed; you cannot browse them from here. That is a real limitation and the marketing pages say so rather than implying otherwise.
Editing is deliberately minimal — rotate, flip, crop. There are no filters, no curves, no RAW development. If those arrive it will be because they are properly built, not because a slider was easy to add.
Self-hosting
Miru runs on your own hardware if you would rather it did. There is a self-hosting guide covering storage backends, the system dependencies for HEIC, RAW and video, and what to configure. It is the same code — there is no reduced community edition.