What are people using instead of Imgur now for image hosting?

Sprout4426 , 1 year ago

imgur is the absolute worst on mobile and no I don’t want to use your shitty app to see an image. Stay as far away from it as you can.

The only reasonable alternatives are things that give you a direct link to image. I used pixhost a few times and it was fine but I’m happy to find alternatives.

eoddc5 , 1 year ago

Can someone explain what’s going on here? Hosting an image to Imgur and hyperlinking the Imgur link is not good for lemmy server storage?

I’ll fix my behavior asap. Just no clue

Or is it mostly the fact that pixel and the rest are decentralized

efiler , 1 year ago

Using lemmys image hosting is not good for server storage. OP doesn’t want to use imgur for a different reason i’m unaware of

MothBookkeeper , 1 year ago

Imgur has gotten really obnoxious to use, since they’re trying to turn it into a standalone social media platform.

312 OP , 1 year ago

I’ve seen a lot of issues with Imgur links, Imgur also tries their hardest to not provide you with a direct image link, instead preferring you link to the Imgur page which is not ideal.

Just looking for a simple drag and drop image host that will give me a plain image URL. No frills needed.

baascus , 1 year ago

The Fediverse has a solution already: pixelfed!

twinsenw , 1 year ago

Are people volunteering their server space on pixelfed? Is that how it works?

Smokeydope , 11 months ago

Yes pretty much most fediverse instances are run by voulenteers on their own hardware time and dime. That is why donations are so important to keep these instances going. Storage space is not cheap and multimedia hosting requires a lot of it.

twistedtxb , 1 year ago

You can still direct link Imgur pics using 3rd Party Apps (yeah I know) like ImgurViewer