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Which is the best image hosting site? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Speckle@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've read that uploading all your images/gifs/videos to lemmy will cause big server costs down the line.

I wanted to do my part in keeping the costs low so which site or app or whatever do people recommend to upload your media to for linking in posts? I've tried imgur and I'm not really a fan

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[–] Secret300@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

https://catbox.moe/

not the best, can have connection issues. But I like it

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using catbox.moe and imgbox.com. Both can be interacted with anonymously via API and never take down uploads

[–] CanOpener@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I've noticed that when you make an image post with an external image, the instance will just save the image and won't load the external image directly. This is a good thing for privacy and security but it also means that it doesn't matter where you upload your images. Images uploaded directly to Lemmy are loaded directly from the other instance though.

[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After photobucket crapped the bed and broke hundreds of my links I decided to roll my own.

So I have a little corner of my website where I can upload pics. There's a dinky shell script to generate indices, thumbnails, pasteable links for BB, reddit, markdown, etc. If this one blows up it's my fault.

[–] jrubal1462@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

That's really cool. Are they photos from a camera's sd card? Or do you pop them over from your phone?

[–] communistcapy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Self-hosted is best, but I also use imgbox.com or vgy.me

[–] downtide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I still use Flickr, but bear in mind that a free account can have a maximum of 1000 images. Its taken me about 7 years to hit the limit so I just delete older ones as I add new ones in.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imgur used to be great, and then it got popular and sold out, got overrun by ads and cludgy UI that makes it annoying to upload or view images from certain platforms. Now there really is no 'good' image site, only what you're willing to put up with.

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

i still use imgur. I don't upload via the webui but have a context menu entry in my file explorer (dolphin). That uploads them without my account and immediately gives me the direct .jpg link.

So viewing them is not hindered by any ads.