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And allows VPN users too please

Catbox links are usually fucked on my end.

I have had nothing but problems with catbox, they ban every IP I've had. I emailed them about it and they said "no we don't". Just keep in mind that random people won't be able to see your post if you use catbox.

It would be difficult to host. Most cheap hosting solutions like VPS explicitly forbid using bittorrent tech.

Could be a good idea, but that seems like a long term improvement. Here we are looking for a solution that wouldn't require changes to the codebase.

The problem with media files is more general, it's not just pictures.

This is also why we've never had a (functioning) video platform on the fediverse: Hosting (storage + bandwidth) costs real money. Actually a lot of money. Who pays for it?

Community hosting of large media files would solve the problem (the instance server would only store a hash value). But, there's a lot of questions/problems, such as:

• what if all seeders go offline simultaneously?
• privacy issues (seeders can see who requests their data)
• legal issues (what if somebody uploads illegal material and you seed it?)

For my family pixelfed instance I've discovered ffshare - it's job is to act something like a pipe in a unix shell and strip exif data as well as downsize the source before sending it off to the target app.

It's not exactly what you've asked for, but it could be used here. Android, at least.

@Nothing4You@programming.dev and @Die4Ever@programming.dev as I see you from time to talking about databases

Lemmy is still saving thumbnails and (previously) sometimes the whole image! The majority of image issues have been cleared up in my opinion and it works very well. Nearly all of our hosts allow hotlinking as it's basically required for our use cases.

Lemmy also knows when the image is another Lemmy instance (through "magic", or just cross posting). So if you upload once and then use that same link on all other posts then that would still be the same.

The problem I think you have is your usecase also includes posting externally to Lemmy. & to some extent, you don't want those images tied to your Lemmy account. If my users post via my instance then they are welcome to also hotlink the images externally. This is only possible because Reddthat uses a CDN and caches the images as much as possible.

Even if we didn't use a cdn there are plenty of VPS' and proxy software that we could use which would transparently function in the same way. You could even setup your own VPS, some image hosting software like https://chibisafe.moe/ or https://github.com/nokonoko/Uguu or https://github.com/hauxir/imgpush

To sum up:

• post once to Lemmy instance and then use that image everywhere
• use a random image host that allows hotlinking to do the same
• get your own VPS, setup an image upload and use that (and maybe get a domain too!)

The 3rd option you can do completely anonymously via crypto.

supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone implemented a custom image proxy for us.

According to catbox uk banned the website. That could be the reason and that's why i refrain from using it beimg on a uk instance

Hello,

Thank you for posting this, another person mentioned them as well: https://jlai.lu/post/14514460/12047196

They don't have a browser extension, but I guess that could be a good solution still

Testing out postimages, a host specifically for forums

This is a test image, if anyone has problems with it comment please.

Thanks! If there would be an image hoster with an extension that would be great, I just tried using imgbb for a few posts, and it's just much more cumbersome unfortunately