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Is there any good alternative to imgur for uploading screenshots? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mainly use imgur to upload screenshots using sharex, would appreciate being pointed in the direction of any alternative.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's really the difference between a federated Lemmy instance for hosting vs a 3rd party anyways?

If another Lemmy instance goes down, all the content on it is gone anyways. Federated != Mirrored. Just because you can browse the content doesn't mean it's safe from going away at the whims of one person

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's very true, but i'm opposed to giving discord and imgur even more power over the media posted to it.

Again, image hosting is a very minimally federated thing, and it's one of the areas where it makes the least difference, but regardless, we should strive to avoid centralization wherever possible.

Also, I think it's possible to create a federated automatically mirrored alternative, I wonder if there's potential there, I don't know!