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Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner

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The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.

The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.

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Was hoping to find a few good alternatives in this commentsland
- The point of good old Imgur was just to upload an image and have it hosted on a URL. Free hosting options now include Catbox and Github.
  As for the social media aspect? Idk why you'd want to replicate that format of social media.
  
  The comment sections on meme dumps are usually pretty fun. A lot of people have the perfect reaction gif for any situation
- I know a bunch of Imurgians have gone over to https://discuit.org/
  Edit: there's also https://cdn.imgpile.com/ which is more like how imgur is set up.
  
  What’s discuit like? I have heard of it but what’s the allure besides it’s not one of the big platforms?
  
  It's more similar to old reddit than how imgur is set up, but it's more community driven, and everyone is very friendly and quite helpful in my experience so far. I can't say much beyond that as I'm still learning more about it myself.
  For something more like how imgur is, there's also https://cdn.imgpile.com/ which feels a little rough around the edges, but has potential.
- https://www.imgcat.io/ is being built by an imgur user but it's not ready yet.
  
  I've not heard of this, but I like it a lot--merci!
- https://catbox.moe/
  
  Can only be accessed in certain countries.
- I'm trying out a few, though I'll have more time to explore them and figure out what I like and don't like over the weekend.
  I've signed up for discuit, and am looking back at tumblr, which I'd left for a while but still has good community.
  I've signed up for imgpile, but there's some problem with the confirmation; I don't know if that's on me or them. And I've joined the waiting list for imgcat. I looked at imgchest. but there's too many ads and some AI stuff, so I'm skipping that for now.
  I've added in a couple discord channels (Ellie and BSV); even if I don't think discord is a good replacement for imgur, it'll let me follow things for a while.
  I'm not sure what to do with with two cat accounts I followed on imgur (KittensForDays and SigridRides); both post on YouTube went other social media, but I didn't use yt much, nor other social media, so ....
  
  Might be worth checking out WAFRN if you want something tumblr-like!
  
  Very cool. I'd love to hear your experience/criticisms if possible
- I edited my other comment to include a site more like imgur, https://cdn.imgpile.com/
  
  Nice, much appreciated
- Rimgo, if you use something like LibRedirect then you probably use it already.
  
  I've had issues with rimgo/libredirect before, is there a good faq or resource that will help me learn how to use it more effectively? (I know it was user-error cuz I'm pretty stupid)
  
  Without knowing specifically what issue you ran into, it might not be user error. A lot of public instances for privacy frontends wind up going down for all sorts of reasons (server overload/scraped to death by bots, had to end server due to costs, API changes to the underlying service breaking something, just to name a few.) Part of the reason I started looking into self-hosting stuff was just to prop up some privacy frontends for my own use.
  
  Wow, that point about the public instances was quite unknown to me at the time and explains a lot of my initial frustrations for sure. I've been looking into getting started self-hosting but am unsure what kinds of important but also safe tools I should start with as a newbie. I need a guide or ranking resource of some sort. Maybe I just lurk c/self-host bunches for now tho
  I have great admiration for those that maintain public instances, but it sounds like I need to again try to get the self-hosting ball rolling if I aim to truly further the privacy-preserving cause
  
  Honestly I think it's a great way to get into self-hosting without having to worry too much! I don't have any one specific guide to point you towards. I just got started a few weeks ago myself, and mostly brushed off some old skills I'd known from other projects and doing a LOT of searching of videos and posts and articles and just figuring things out as I went. So the best I can do is tell you some topics you're going to want to learn about.
  Assuming you'll want to start small and easy (not needing to expose anything to the internet, just local area network stuff), I recommend you search up the following topics:
  Linux commands (if you don't know them already)
  Running a virtual machine (if you don't have some hardware lying around that you can use to run as your 'server.' Old laptops are a fantastic starting point if you do. But if not you can definitely experiment with a VM on your PC!)
  Docker & Docker Compose (in that order if you don't find some two-in-one resource)
  That should give you enough to start toying around and trying things out. And once you start doing that, you start unearthing what you don't know and that'll point you towards the next thing you need to learn. :)

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