In an effort to try and be mindful of storage usage on instances I’m posting to, I’d prefer to host images externally and link to them.
Now that Imgur has turned into… whatever it is now, anyone have any good recommendations for simple, quick image hosts?
The Fediverse has a solution already: pixelfed!
That’s an instagram clone not an imgur clone. It doesn’t really seem to be the drag, drop, and get a throwaway link style service imgur is.
Are people volunteering their server space on pixelfed? Is that how it works?
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.
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
imgchest works great for porn.
