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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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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