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I'm looking for a place to move my cohost photo page @halcyon-garden to. If you have any ideas, please help me!
Things I need that platform/solution to be/do:
- It has to be viewable for everyone, not require any logins for viewers.
- It has to have a way for multiple photos to be displayed as one unit or post. I post a photo set of typically up to 12 pics near-daily and I want all photos of a day to be displayed together. If I have to split up an image-heavy day's post into no more than 2 units, that would still be ok.
- I need to be able to upload photos directly from my phone. Ideally into some sort of storage that isn't public, that I can then access on my desktop computer to assemble into a full post with accompanying text (cohost drafts worked great for that).
- It has to be cheap or free. I can pay something like 5 bucks a month, but not significantly more. Ideally, the people to get my money wouldn't be horrible ghouls.
- It has to be easy to set up and use. I have very little energy and I need it to be as simple and stress-free as possible, otherwise I won't be able to do it daily. I know very little html. I know very little about how to do stuff on the web in general. I cannot code my own website or anything similarly involved.
- I'd like some sort of social aspect/feedback, ideally the ability to get likes and comments. Numbers are obviously not needed, but I would be able to tolerate them. This is the only one of my "needs" that I'm not entirely sure about. I might be able to do without it since I have the discord server now, but it wouldn't be great.
Things that would be nice to have but aren't requirements:
- A way to link to single posts so I can share the photos of a specific day somewhere else.
- Image hosting and presentation would ideally be on the same platform.
- A tag system would be good. I like to tag each post with a bunch of labels for the content of the pics, and then be able to sort/filter by these tags.
- Accessibility tools. Mainly a way to easily add and display alt text.
- An option to present the photos in a similar way as I've been doing it, vertically below each other, example - this would be ideal. Also ok would be a way to have all of them display in some sort of grid at once, where you can click to enlarge them - like the default way cohost displays photos you upload to a post when you're not using markdown to embed them. My least fav way, that I hope to avoid, would be an instagram-type thing where sets of photos aren't displayed all at once but you only see the first one and have to click through one by one to see the rest.
- A way for people to get an RSS feed from it without me having to set that up.
- It should ideally not noticeably compress images. (My files are typically between 1-5MB each and 2048px wide at full size.)
I have been looking at some options but it is just very overwhelming for me right now and I'm probably missing options due to knowing so little.
Blog platforms I've looked at seem creepy/corporate and/or often don't have affordable integrated image hosting. Are there any you know of that you think might work?
Fedi/Mastodon currently seems like the most promising option. I've seen some fedi things that allow 10-16 images per post that can be displayed grid-style, which could be ok. I've looked at Pixelfed, but those seem to have instagram-style picture presentation, which I don't like.
I would very much appreciate help, hints and suggestions! 
