A Privacy First Photo Network Can Still Feel Social, with Darin Myman, Myseum.ai

Your camera roll is overflowing, your group chats are chaos, and the biggest platforms keep getting weirder about data, ads, and AI. So what would a modern photo sharing app look like if it started with privacy and still felt genuinely social? Gary Pageau from The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Darin Myman, CEO of Myseum.ai, to unpack Picture Party, a new approach to event photo sharing that’s closer to a private social network than a simple shared album.

Myman discusses the real differences: A feed where people can post big batches of photos and videos, add context with captions and tags, and react and comment like the early days of social networking. He explains why Picture Party is built so new members can see everything from the beginning, making it useful not only for weddings and parties, but also for long-term family photo archives that can last for decades and be shared across generations.

Privacy is the center of the conversation. Myman talks about the concern that personal images are used for AI training on major platforms, and he outlines a privacy-first AI direction that aims to deliver features like automatic tagging and auto album creation without exposing your data or feeding it into giant external models. Also covered are the practical controls that matter in the real world: who can invite others, who can download full-size images for printing, view-only modes, and moderator tools that can remove content, boot users, or approve posts before they go live.