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fair! even imgur has made some big changes like a new rule against nsfw. it makes me think the same garbage that happened with twitter and reddit could happen to imgur
It will happen to any social media company looking for investors.
imo that's not good enough anymore for the web at its current age. decentralization works and is the way to go. communities shouldn't suffer from the gross actions of large companies. that's why a federated and decentralized imgur clone would be good, too :)
Imgur was created as an image host for Reddit back when Reddit did not support direct image uploads, so any self-hostable image storage solution including Lemmy's built-in
pict-rswill work. Federation of the file host is not necessary as there is no need to mirror the files between instances, they are linked to federated posts and the file can be viewed directly on the uploader's instance. As for the community features of Imgur, the "community" on Imgur is, as one Redditor put it, "the sewer rats who don't realize they're living in the sewer".Indie and self-hosted object storage providers could help diversify who is storing the end data (ideally less Amazon and big corps). I've heard things about https://min.io but haven't dug into it beyond that. And pict-rs instances using filesystem/sled are already set, although cost for disk is more expensive than objects I think?
Yes, by default files are stored directly on a volume on the disk but it's possible to configure pict-rs to use object storage, although there isn't much documentation for configuring and using it with Lemmy yet. Kbin has support for S3 storage in its environment variables. I'll do some research and see if I can add it to Lemmy.