Their whole front page has dozens of these same images. And I'm not much of a imgur user to dig around.

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I first got to Lemmy i always thought a fediverse imgur would be neat. As the other comment said, imgur has been going down this path for a while, so i ended up leaving quite a while ago and never pursued the idea. Plus I'm not really knowledgeable enough to do it myself.

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  • I left Imgur when I left Reddit, since the only thing I ever used it for was hosting things to post on Reddit. Funny, I must have gotten spoiled to Lemmy instances self-hosting images, because I forgot Imgur even existed until I saw this post today.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    i guess there is pixelfed. but i would compare it more to instagram. many lemmy instances allow uploading pictures directly, so you dont necessarily need a separate host.

    but where i see the biggest caveat, is costs. cloud storage is not cheap and pictures are extremely large compared to text. therefore some lemmy instances only keep uploaded pics for a certain amount of time.

    I dont know whether imgur is keeping pictures for ever or not... so i am not sure if it federated imgur would solve the 'amnesia issue' of some lemmy instances.

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