The point of good old Imgur was just to upload an image and have it hosted on a URL. Free hosting options now include Catbox and Github.
As for the social media aspect? Idk why you’d want to replicate that format of social media.
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FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 19 hours ago
Was hoping to find a few good alternatives in this commentsland
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 18 hours ago
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
The comment sections on meme dumps are usually pretty fun. A lot of people have the perfect reaction gif for any situation
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
I know a bunch have gone over to discuit.org
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
What’s discuit like? I have heard of it but what’s the allure besides it’s not one of the big platforms?
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
It’s more similar to old reddit than how imgur is set up, but it’s more community driven, and everyone is very friendly and quite helpful in my experience so far. I can’t say much beyond that as I’m still learning more about it myself.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 8 hours ago
Rimgo, if you use something like LibRedirect then you probably use it already.
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 2 hours ago
I've had issues with rimgo/libredirect before, is there a good faq or resource that will help me learn how to use it more effectively? (I know it was user-error cuz I'm pretty stupid)
other_cat@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Without knowing specifically what issue you ran into, it might not be user error. A lot of public instances for privacy frontends wind up going down for all sorts of reasons (server overload/scraped to death by bots, had to end server due to costs, API changes to the underlying service breaking something, just to name a few.) Part of the reason I started looking into self-hosting stuff was just to prop up some privacy frontends for my own use.
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 1 hour ago
Wow, that point about the public instances was quite unknown to me at the time and explains a lot of my initial frustrations for sure. I've been looking into getting started self-hosting but am unsure what kinds of important but also safe tools I should start with as a newbie. I need a guide or ranking resource of some sort. Maybe I just lurk c/self-host bunches for now tho
I have great admiration for those that maintain public instances, but it sounds like I need to again try to get the self-hosting ball rolling if I aim to truly further the privacy-preserving cause
pibfyhd7g57gd5u64f@piefed.social 17 hours ago
aramis87@fedia.io 17 hours ago
I'm trying out a few, though I'll have more time to explore them and figure out what I like and don't like over the weekend.
I've signed up for discuit, and am looking back at tumblr, which I'd left for a while but still has good community.
I've signed up for imgpile, but there's some problem with the confirmation; I don't know if that's on me or them. And I've joined the waiting list for imgcat. I looked at imgchest. but there's too many ads and some AI stuff, so I'm skipping that for now.
I've added in a couple discord channels (Ellie and BSV); even if I don't think discord is a good replacement for imgur, it'll let me follow things for a while.
I'm not sure what to do with with two cat accounts I followed on imgur (KittensForDays and SigridRides); both post on YouTube went other social media, but I didn't use yt much, nor other social media, so ....
other_cat@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Might be worth checking out WAFRN if you want something tumblr-like!
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 2 hours ago
Very cool. I'd love to hear your experience/criticisms if possible
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I edited my other comment to include a site more like imgur, cdn.imgpile.com
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 2 hours ago
Nice, much appreciated
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
www.imgcat.io is being built by an imgur user but it’s not ready yet.
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 2 hours ago
I've not heard of this, but I like it a lot--merci!