What are people using instead of Imgur now for image hosting?
In an effort to try and be mindful of storage usage on instances I'm posting to, I'd prefer to host images externally and link to them.
Now that Imgur has turned into.. whatever it is now, anyone have any good recommendations for simple, quick image hosts?
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The Fediverse has a solution already: pixelfed!
That's an instagram clone not an imgur clone. It doesn't really seem to be the drag, drop, and get a throwaway link style service imgur is.
Man, I'm just learning new stuff here almost by the minute!
Now I'm off to go explore this Pixelfed.
Are people volunteering their server space on pixelfed? Is that how it works?
Yes pretty much most fediverse instances are run by voulenteers on their own hardware time and dime. That is why donations are so important to keep these instances going. Storage space is not cheap and multimedia hosting requires a lot of it.
I tried it, it's not a suitable Imgur replacement unfortunately.
Just signed up on pixey.org. Thanks! :)
https://catbox.moe/
A Pixelfed instance, like https://pixel.tchncs.de
I have had a good experience with Post Images so far. The free accounts are more than enough space. And they provide a direct link to the image for posting.
I had a lot of trouble with this site, if I were to direct link to the image then it would be in low resolution and it says I have to link to the website instead of the image for full resolution.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Can someone explain what’s going on here? Hosting an image to Imgur and hyperlinking the Imgur link is not good for lemmy server storage?
I’ll fix my behavior asap. Just no clue
Or is it mostly the fact that pixel and the rest are decentralized
Using lemmys image hosting is not good for server storage. OP doesn't want to use imgur for a different reason i'm unaware of
Imgur has gotten really obnoxious to use, since they're trying to turn it into a standalone social media platform.
I think part of the issue with imgur is they decided to remove all their nsfw media to go public so all reddit posts linked to them were going to get broken.
I’ve seen a lot of issues with Imgur links, Imgur also tries their hardest to not provide you with a direct image link, instead preferring you link to the Imgur page which is not ideal.
Just looking for a simple drag and drop image host that will give me a plain image URL. No frills needed.
You can still direct link Imgur pics using 3rd Party Apps (yeah I know) like ImgurViewer
I think it's going to be critical for Lemmy instances to use a third party image service for one simple reason: takedown requests
Basically, there's no way that small server admins can handle the volume of takedowns that comes to every service. Having that handled by something like Imgur is the only way I can see things shaking out. It'll still be hard
imgur is the absolute worst on mobile and no I don't want to use your shitty app to see an image. Stay as far away from it as you can.
The only reasonable alternatives are things that give you a direct link to image. I used pixhost a few times and it was fine but I'm happy to find alternatives.
I've never had any issues using Imgur other than for some reason even a direct link to an image will take someone else I am sending the URL to to a framed page instead of directly to the image.
https://imgbb.com/
You could try Pixelfed. Not tried it myself yet.
A lot of people on lemmynsfw are using catbox.moe or postimg.cc (I've tried neither one from the posting side)
imgchest works great for porn.