drop em here!!!

  • hardypart@feddit.de
    10·
    2 years ago

    Wait, I’m simply pasting them into my comment. Why should I use a dedicated image holster?

    • vandrw
      23·
      2 years ago

      To offload the storage requirements of the instance you’re posting in. If everyone starts uploading images directly in the comment, the server HDD/SDD will be overloaded. Consider using a third party service and posting the link from there instead!

      • FrostTom@kbin.social
        9·
        2 years ago

        Thats kinda the point of the feature though… To be used. If its a performance issue, then it should be turned off. In the end, someone has to host the content.

        • VitulusAureus@kbin.social
          4·
          2 years ago

          Agreed, that decision should not be left up to the users. It’s the server maintainers who know best whether they can afford the storage space. If not, they should limit the ability to store too much data, by whatever means they find relevant, e.g. by limiting maximum post size.

    • chaddy@feddit.de
      16·
      2 years ago

      Hosting the images directly on the lemmy/kbin instance creates imo unnecessary traffic to the servers. I don’t know if admins can disable selfhosting images, but considering the low-powered machines almost every instance is currently hosted on, I would assume it would be in everyones self-interest to outsource image hosting (at least for now).

      • CanOpener@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 years ago

        This is a privacy risk because Lemmy doesn’t proxy external media (or cache remote media like Mastodon). It’s also better for longevity, if an external image host the image is gone.

    • XxTriviumxX@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      i changed the topic as a general imgur alternatives post, since i could just use the kbin interface to upload images in comments… kbin is miles ahead of reddit with that feature LOL

  • magmaus3@szmer.info
    9·
    2 years ago
    1. you can upload the image directly when creating a post
    2. picoshare (selfhosted) might be a good option
  • Auster@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    Discord. You can get the links for images and videos posted in it, and they work outside their original site.

    • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      Discord is the worst option in terms of privacy, and since this is the privacy guides community, I am thinking that should be an important criteria to consider.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
      2·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t know you could do this. I cross post a lot into my discord servers, so this might work.

      It’s not revealing any information about your discord server by doing so, right?

  • NunoSempere@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    I host my own images on my server using nginx to serve them from /var/www/images. You can see an example here: https://images.nunosempere.com/blog/2023/02/19/bayesian-adjustment-to-rethink-priorities-welfare-range-estimates/ignore-the-prior.png

    The nginx configuration I’m using is

    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

}
  • Nadya@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    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

    • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve also been using postimages.org (but always without logging in and with adblockers and additional privacy addons. Would love to find something that’s more FOSS aligned though (that also doesn’t require log in and allows pasting images).

  • Chip@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    Lensdump seems good. And it has an option to strip exif data when you upload, which is nice.

    • GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • XxTriviumxX@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      pixelfed is very interesting! fits the free/libre aspect i was looking for! added it in my bookmarks

    • Books@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      New to these fedi sites, but isn’t there a way to have one login to login across all of them?

      • vkeycaps@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        No, but you can interact with other “platforms” while been logged in on your home instance(platform)

    • hihusio@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • paper_clip@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • JanoRis@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    So lemmy.world lets you just copypaste images directly from your snipping tool and hosts them on lemmy.world/pictrs

    Kbin sadly does not do this, no idea if other lemmy instances do this

    example1

    example2

    • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
      9·
      2 years ago

      AFAIK this is for all instances but it’ll be better to host images in a dedicated service to not overload lemmy servers

    • parrot-party@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.