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Is there a good solution for image hosting (for cohost purposes, really) where it's:
I've had issues with stuff I hosted on imgbb just... failing entirely to load for some people. Can't reproduce to find out why, but it's been an ongoing concern.
I'm already paying for Fastmail, so I use it for hosting videos and occasionally images. So technically it's free for me? I don't know what service you're using for email but it might have something similar
If you are self-hosting your own email server, godspeed
https://postimages.org/ postimages advertises itself for forums but i'm pretty sure you can just use it
Dropbox, honestly. Just replace the ?dl=0 of any image url with ?raw=1 and it’ll allow you to embed. I use it a lot for my photography chosts.
i often dump files that i have that are too big for cohost/elsewhere onto my neocities, which is a website host but you can easily just use it as an image dump, it's free but you can pay the $5/mo for 50Gb of storage
This is probably not super useful general advice, but I drop images in an S3 bucket in my personal AWS account. My entire AWS spend totals, like, $0.43/mo, and I think that's mostly an unrelated site that I maintain behind cloudfront. I think that you can get away with 5 GB of storage and 20k views/month before they charge you anything at all. The URL is ugly/long, but probably the most stable long-term option.
I do the same with a DigitalOcean spaces, that has the added benefit that they give you a nice CDN URL, but has a fixed minimum cost ($5/month which I will probably never exceed).
Dropshare seems like it works nicely with these, in order to have an easier upload UI, but is iOS/macOS only.
Yeah if your frame of mind is “I am willing to pay some fraction of a penny per month to make this meme last forever and I’m also willing to do something a bit nerdy to get there” this is an A+ solution
I switched over to https://postimages.org/ when that imgur apocalypse thing happened, it works great.
