This section documents the user experiences for the Self-Hosted Personal Media Storage capability — the end-to-end journeys taken by the actors named in the parent capability’s Stakeholders, in pursuit of the outcomes the capability promises.
A user moving off a commercial cloud provider brings their entire existing library — dates and organization intact — into their own storage in one go, so they can trust this as their new home and stop paying the old provider.
A user removes content they no longer want — with a 30-day safety net — and, if they ever choose, leaves the system entirely, exporting first because after the retention window their data is gone for good.
A person the operator has chosen is invited into the closed circle, sets up credentials only they hold, understands the deal, and ends up with a ready, empty library.
A user who has been granted access to someone else’s content finds it, views it, downloads the copies they want, and understands the boundaries of what’s been shared with them.
A content owner grants a specific fellow user, or a shared group, access to chosen content — and can review and revoke that access later — while everything else stays private.
A provisioned user gets their media into their own storage — a specific file they deliberately choose, or automatically from their device without thinking about it — and trusts it landed safely and privately.
A user browses, finds, and organizes their own media, views and downloads originals, and can pull a complete on-demand export of everything they own.