2y ago

is there a fediverse imgur?

for the longest time a lot of images posted to reddit were really posted on imgur (until they started hosting it on their own, too). is there a fediverse'd imgur we should be using to complement lemmy? its docs say it shouldn't be used for large images and videos.

pixelfed seems more like a federated flickr or instagram, not just simple image/album hosting like imgur. thoughts? ty 💙

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Well, an imgur alternative does not need to be federated, if it's to be used to only host large content. Imgur does not have any real social features, as far as I understand, either.
So any simple image/video hosting tool should do. I mean, you could also just use imgur!
- fair! even imgur has made some big changes like a new rule against nsfw. it makes me think the same garbage that happened with twitter and reddit could happen to imgur
  
  It will happen to any social media company looking for investors.
- Imgur does have comments and votes. They tried to make it an actual community... It didn't work, for the most part.
  There was (is?) a subreddit about random imgur comments who didn't understand that people used it just as a hosting website to share images with other communities, notably reddit. I think it was lost on imgur or something? Haven't been there in a while and can't find it. I can find "Ignorant imgur" but it's so inactive, I don't think that is it.
Honestly, something IPFS-based would probably be a reasonable answer, but I don't think anyone's made a generic image hosting system on it yet.
- agree, my first thought was ipfs. would be cool if ipfs gave the uploader the power to delete/revoke
  
  The design of IPFS - using content-based addressing with append-only interactions - makes deleting/revoking basically impossible to implement, let alone guarantee.
  There's the dat protocol (now hypercore by holepunch) that handled this better, with content being addressed by key instead, so that the owner of the private part of the key could modify content after "uploading" it.
  Unfortunately, hypercore still hasn't really reached that stable point where you'd like it to be for developing a software like this on top of it.
Have a look at PixelFed, not being an Imgur user I can't tell if it will meet all your requirements but it's definitely a great way to publish images in the fediverse
- pixelfed looks like it is catered towards creative artists who make images. they deserve their own tool/space, of course, and imgur was never really catered to anything except whatever images and gifs you can throw at it
I think some sort of p2p solution would be really cool. You could basically allocate a certain amount of storage on your server and images would be stored and grabbed by peers as needed. Something like BitTorrent where multiple peers have the same content to reduce load. Not sure if it already exists or is even practically possible.
- someone beat me to it but yeah, i think something like ipfs is trying to be the sort of p2p decentralized storage solution. i like your thinking of bittorrent :D
  
  Yeah, I see a lot of comments about ipfs. I’ll be checking it out.
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