I mainly use imgur to upload screenshots using sharex, would appreciate being pointed in the direction of any alternative.
pixelfed might work for you.
Looks interesting and I will def be joining, but it does seem more instagramy than specifically free image hosting.
Yeah, but you can ignore that and hotlink the images, I believe.
You can upload an image when creating a post by clicking on the small thumbnail icon at the bottom right of the file input
As someone who doesn’t know, what’s wrong with imgur?
Edit: Thanks for the info guys.
They just stopped hosting porn. Dont know why OP is asking but quite a few people were scrambling for a replacement a couple of weeks ago on reddit.
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
No they don’t? 🤔 I’m pretty sure they did once, but right now I am able to upload images with no account. Just dragging the file into the browser window works.
I use vgy.me, it doesn’t support video uploads but it does have markdown in the image page
edit: switched to catbox because i learned that vgy autoremoves after a year
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.
What’s there to federate about image cdn? If you don’t want to use 3rd party service just self host. You just have to make compromises either way.
We actually feature a federated image hosting service on lemmy, there isn’t much to image hosting to federate, you’re right, but we shouldn’t rely on imgur or discord or anything centralized wherever possible to avoid centralization of control over our media.
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
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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