Any good (privacy-respecting) platform to host and share photos? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/photography@lemmy.world

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Hi all, is there a service that lets you share photos with others that is at least a little privacy-respecting? Think something like Imgur, but more open and less privacy invasive.

I'm not looking for something like Pixelfed (which is great if you want an Fediverse Instagram alternative!), nor am I looking for something like Immich (photo backup that I already self-host on my local network!), I'm looking for a public service where I can upload images that can be shared via a URL.

Ideally, I should have some amount of organisation (at the very least the creation of albums), have support for larger files produced by my mirrorless camera (nothing crazy, images are 6000x4000px and are usually several MBs each), and not hosted in the U.S., China, or similar

Self-hosted suggestions are okay too, but public services are ideal

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Since you already run Immich; why not use it's share links?

The page they bring you too has the image/video embedded in it alongside showing metadata, but you can right-click/long-press and 'open image in new tab' to get the raw image link for embedding in lemmy posts or wherever you needed a public image link.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Since you already run Immich; why not use it's share links?

Because then I would need to set up a domain name, reverse proxy, and that sort. I don't have the time to troubleshoot networking stuff, so locally hosted it is for now. When I do get the time, I will set that up!

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

That's fair. When you mentioned your self-hosted services and that self-hosted suggestions are welcome, I assumed you had some of that infrastructure setup already.

You'll need it for any self-hosted option made public.

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

When you mentioned your self-hosted services and that self-hosted suggestions are welcome, I assumed you had some of that infrastructure setup already

I mentioned this as self-hosted services were going to be recommended anyways (because they're awesome!), but for something that is public, it's something I will do later rather than now.

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