I just upload directly to the instance, at least that’s what I think I’m doing. My app lets me do that (Boost).
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jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks agoI do, that’s the only one I can remember which I can embed easily here.
What are the alternatives? I wish I could just upload images for comments in PieFed.
gigachad@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
gigachad@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Interesting, I am using the voyager mobile app. Does that mean the functionality is there but the PieFed frontend hasn’t integrated it?
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
That is interesting, I just checked and your image is indeed hosted by PieFed itself and not by any external service like I assumed that the 3rd party apps would implement as a workaround.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I’m using Boost for Lemmy and I never questioned how it works, but I can just add images here straight from my gallery.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
You are on Lemmy, I’m on PieFed
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t matter, it’s a clone with same functionality. There are users below uploading the same way I did and it uploads on their instance (piefed).
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
To me it does matter because I can’t upload pictures to comments.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Catbox is basically what Imgur used to be before it went to absolute shit. You upload images, you can link to them. That’s it. You don’t need to create an account, but if you do, you can see everything you’ve uploaded. It’s free. Not really sure what more you can ask for in an image host.
Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
Can you just browse other peoples uploads on there looking for funny pics and memes?
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Nope! It’s an image host, not a social media platform, which in my opinion is the best thing about it.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
This brought back memories. We used to have a local image host and there was a hidden /recents page that I discovered. It listed all the recent uploads by users. I don’t think it was meant to be public, because the shit I could find there was both too personal and NSFW
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Asking the important questions. I need the shitposting, not just the image hosting.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Catbox is also nonfunctional on some VPNs.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Didn’t know that! I use an always-on VPN and I’ve never had issues with Catbox (but imgur blocks me), for what it’s worth.
aeiou@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Catbox doesn’t work properly on some US mobile carriers, returns a DNS error
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I just loaded it through a Comcast connection, so it’s definitely not an IP block or route issue. I don’t use Comcast’s dns though and I’m completely unwilling to do so even for test purposes so you could still be right.