Thanks! Imgur doesn't play well with my vpn, and I'm not able to upload photos directly (in the vegetarian magazine, at least). I think PixelFed might be a good workaround for me.
is the social aspect of pixelfed required? meaning, could I just upload screenshots and images for threads like this and not have to deal with comments, likes, and followers? I just want to link to images.
It looks like the Fediverse analog of Instagram. Imgur allows anonymous uploads, so you can upload throwaway junk (e.g., memes) and not care. It doesn't look like you can do that with Pixelfed, anymore than you could have done that with Instagram.
It's understandable. Image hosting bloats costs quite a bit. It also introduces new issues with the law as the server admin can't allow illegal pictures on it. Offloading that onto a separate image host removes both issues with only minor downsides.
I'd much rather kbin focus on long-term posting stability than worry about image hosting. If it gets big, then we can think about it. Reddit went without image hosting for years though.
I use imgbb.com almost exclusively. I really like it. It's fast, easy and works well for bulk uploads. It also has a fast drag and drop on the homepage so I can just type "im" on the url bar, press enter, drag and drop like 20 images or just Ctrl V, press upload and copy the urls. No overhead at all.
I run my own file host: kimiga.aishitei.ru. Files get uploaded from clipboard using ShareX. This allows me to have control over my own files, how long they last or if they should last forever, and I'm not dependent on a benevolent developer preventing my links from rotting 8 years from now when they close down their host due to it costing them too much or simply because they got bored of being a sysadmin/dealing with issues (or users) of their site.
I used to donate to pomf.se and used that as the image host because I was a supporter of the sysadmin - but it eventually grew too large and had to shut down. Then a bunch of pomf.se clones popped up and I used one of those - can't remember which one but then that one shut down too after only a year. That's when I decided to set up my own host.
I don't allow other users on the site because I don't feel like having to deal with what users upload, DMCA requests, morally gray areas, etc.
.ru domains are sometimes blocked so my backup is catbox.moe
I recommend Lensdump too. It also has an auto-delete feature, which is nice. It doesn't allow for anonymous/guest downloads, but that's not exactly a bad thing.
Lets you upload an image without any account and spits out view, share and download links for it, has a toggle for how long to keep an image before deleting it, or keeping it indefinitely unless manually deleted, and even strips exif tags and has an option for encrypting the image, and is fully foss
If all you need is a place to upload images to that you can then link to in a post this serves its job well enough
I run an instance of Xbackbone on my server, and it works quite well. It can export you a ShareX config for Windows, and on Linux/macOS it can export either a shell script (which I use with KSnip) or a Screencloud plugin to use with it.
server {
root /var/www/images;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name images.nunosempere.com;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/images.nunosempere.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/images.nunosempere.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = images.nunosempere.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name images.nunosempere.com;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
How do you upload them though ? Serving images is easy, but the upload part from wherever (my laptop, my tablet, your phone, ...) is the "hardest" one if you want an imgur-like upload form. Do you require authentication? Maximum file size? Persistence? etc..
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