there’s this:
its free, and it’s licensed under the MIT license. it’s a bit bare-bones, but it works!
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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this is good
There are many like it, but this one is mine
you mean like running your own? nextcloud
No, not self-hosted. Free and Open Source.
What's the value in an open sourced centralized service? Aren't you just looking for a free service?
I'm not them, but the ability to contribute and extend the functionality of the product, whether I ever do it or not, is important to me. As is licensing. I want to build my self hosted stack on things that a company inherently can't take away when they want more profit. With open source, I can go figure out how to build old code myself once I have the code. With closed source, I can't download old binaries if they take them off of their website.
That makes sense.
you realize thats not likely to be a thing due to hosting costing money. file hosting in particular is a bigger bill each month while realizing only minimal utilization increase. if its to be 100% free its going to collapse eventually.
search for a subscription or ad-supported system you like. You aren't looking for free software (what OSS is) you are looking for free service (increasingly rare on the internet)
Bummer that it doesn't support video.
Seconded. I still think a FOSS alternative that allows embedding videos within Lemmy and Mastodon is a huge step forward.
I’d host my own instance for the few things myself and a few friends post and others could do the same. Then of course there would be larger more professional instances that people would host as well.
Some combination of posting to ipfs then linking with the cloudflare ipfs gateway.. not sure how smooth that workflow is.
Hosting cost money. Even if there is a free and open source hosting solution it's going to cost money to run. Without venture capital money or advertisements or some monetization scheme, you can't host it for free. Wikipedia works because they beg for donations.
IPFS works because there's some weird cryptologic money funnel going on in the background. Probably won't last forever.
You can refer here and check if any meet your needs. Some of the top ones are obviously not the ones you require so do scroll and try out the others.
https://alternativeto.net/software/imgur/?license=opensource
I don’t see this as a viable concept, as much as I’d like it to be.
I damn sure don’t want to be the sysadmin responsible for the content in that wretched hive of scum and villainy, not with the minefield that is s230 if you’re not a giant platform, or without running uploads thru corp photo identification products.
The legal structure is such that running it would be perilous.