I mainly use imgur to upload screenshots using sharex, would appreciate being pointed in the direction of any alternative.
pixelfed might work for you.
https://vgy.me/ has been pretty reliable for me
They delete your photos if they’re unaccessed by the uploader after a year unfortunately. Ask me how I found out :(
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You can upload an image when creating a post by clicking on the small thumbnail icon at the bottom right of the file input
Some instances/servers are currently not capable of uploads larger than ~100kb, so a good image CDN is desired.
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.
I’m not sure about the longevity but a lot of people use discord as CDN apparently. There’s even an API for that.
We should really try to stick to federated FOSS choices, so that we don’t have a future nightmare on our hands.
As someone who doesn’t know, what’s wrong with imgur?
Edit: Thanks for the info guys.
Imgur announced recently they are going to be purging images that haven’t been viewed for x amount of time.
If you’re just shitposting dank memes, having the pictures deleted after a while shouldn’t be a big problem. If you’re posting something a bit more valuable, consider keeping the pictures on flickr or even pixelfed.
Is pixelfed really a good way to prevent dead links? I don’t know much about it other than that it’s part of the fediverse, so I’d assume any pictures hosted there last only as long as the instance they’re posted to.
If you choose to use Pixelfed, you should probably be active in your chosen instance and donate regularly.
I suppose you’re right, though that’s quite involved when all I want is to host an image.
Using flickr or google would be a lighter option. If you put some pictures in a place like that, they are probably going to stay there, but the TOS does leave a very convenient backdoor open. If flickr messes up a database migration, or the datacenter gets hit by a meteor one day, and all of your photos disappear, you can’t hold them accountable. Every option has some issues…
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.
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.
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
do they have a sizable community? honestly i just assumed it was almost exclusively used for image hosting.
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
