I’ve read that uploading all your images/gifs/videos to lemmy will cause big server costs down the line.
I wanted to do my part in keeping the costs low so which site or app or whatever do people recommend to upload your media to for linking in posts? I’ve tried imgur and I’m not really a fan
not the best, can have connection issues. But I like it
I usually go with postimg or pasteboard, but it takes a couple extra clicks to get the direct image link.
This is the first I’ve heard of catbox, and they give you the direct link as the only link. Catbox is my new favorite.
And catbox has no “make public or private?” or “is this nsfw?” bullshit. It’s just a straight up, simple as can be, image hoster. I can’t express how much I’m loving catbox already.
After photobucket <spit> crapped the bed and broke hundreds of my links I decided to roll my own.
So I have a little corner of my website where I can upload pics. There’s a dinky shell script to generate indices, thumbnails, pasteable links for BB, reddit, markdown, etc. If this one blows up it’s my fault.
That’s really cool. Are they photos from a camera’s sd card? Or do you pop them over from your phone?
I ftp (well, sftp) them to the site from my phone and run the script next time I log in.
I still have an /sa/ directory full of images sitting on my personal website, well over a decade since I last used Something Awful regularly.
What’s old is new again!
I’ve noticed that when you make an image post with an external image, the instance will just save the image and won’t load the external image directly. This is a good thing for privacy and security but it also means that it doesn’t matter where you upload your images. Images uploaded directly to Lemmy are loaded directly from the other instance though.
I’ve been using catbox.moe and imgbox.com. Both can be interacted with anonymously via API and never take down uploads
Imgur used to be great, and then it got popular and sold out, got overrun by ads and cludgy UI that makes it annoying to upload or view images from certain platforms. Now there really is no ‘good’ image site, only what you’re willing to put up with.
i still use imgur. I don’t upload via the webui but have a context menu entry in my file explorer (dolphin). That uploads them without my account and immediately gives me the direct .jpg link.
So viewing them is not hindered by any ads.
I think uploads without accounts are deleted after a while, which leads to link rot. If you are uploading images to helpful posts, then those posts will have incomplete information if the image is essential to it.
Can you tell more about it?
This is for linux, and there is a file explorer called Dolphin. It comes within KDE Plasma.
There you can install new service menus that can share an image via imgur.
I will check it out
I think uploads without accounts are deleted after a while, which leads to link rot. If you are uploading images to helpful posts, then those posts will have incomplete information if the image is essential to it.
I think uploads without accounts are deleted after a while, which leads to link rot. If you are uploading images to helpful posts, then those posts will have incomplete information if the image is essential to it.
I think uploads without accounts are deleted after a while, which leads to link rot. If you are uploading images to helpful posts, then those posts will have incomplete information if the image is essential to it.
Self-hosted is best, but I also use imgbox.com or vgy.me
I’ve had a good experience with Post Images. Native resolution, direct image links, album capabilities, free, and minimal info for signup.
I still use Flickr, but bear in mind that a free account can have a maximum of 1000 images. Its taken me about 7 years to hit the limit so I just delete older ones as I add new ones in.
Maybe outside the scope of this post, but has there been any discussion on integrating IPFS as an image hosting solution within the fediverse?
Your own website. Most static hosting providers provides atleast 1 GB of free storage and allow images up to 10 MB (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare pages, GitHub pages), its a bit complicated to set up but its really nice to have a personal website. The only cost is getting a domain name.
I like postimg and pasteboard
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