I mainly use imgur to upload screenshots using sharex, would appreciate being pointed in the direction of any alternative.

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    I’ve not looked into it fully but there is that pixelfed which is a part of the fediverse, don’t know how it works for public images and whatnot though since it touts itself as a secure platform where you can choose who can see your stuff kind of deal

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      Some instances/servers are currently not capable of uploads larger than ~100kb, so a good image CDN is desired.

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        I also feel like lots of people uploading images directly to an instance’s servers put a lot more strain on them - especially at a time where most servers are experiencing serious growing pains and may not really have the funds to keep expanding their storage. They’re not ad supported like places like Reddit are.

        I think it would be courteous of us to try and spread it out a bit and use services specifically intended for and set up for image hosting.

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    1 year ago

    As someone who doesn’t know, what’s wrong with imgur?

    Edit: Thanks for the info guys.

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      Imgur announced recently they are going to be purging images that haven’t been viewed for x amount of time.

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        That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as long as you aren’t using it for archival purposes. I would prefer not everything I post live forever.

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          While I’d agree for identifying pictures, image hosting that suddenly doesn’t one day becomes a huge problem for a lot of old tutorial-based content. Look at any old car forum for examples.

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    I’m not sure about the longevity but a lot of people use discord as CDN apparently. There’s even an API for that.

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      1 year ago

      We should really try to stick to federated FOSS choices, so that we don’t have a future nightmare on our hands.

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    1 year ago

    Been considering to self-host, Imgur clearly no longer wants to be in the image hosting business and wants to focus on their “community” instead

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      1 year ago

      do they have a sizable community? honestly i just assumed it was almost exclusively used for image hosting.

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        It’s home to a very strange community unaware that their “platform” was just an image host for users of an actual social media platform. Well, at least it was before imgur recently started adding social media features and purged nsfw content.

        Popular image posts from reddit would routinely get boosted (sans context) to the top of imgur’s homepage, which would attract confused, angry, and often unintentionally hilarious comments from imgur users. Iirc there was a subreddit dedicated to this phenomenon.

        Edit: sp