I used to use cat box but it’s not reliable. Stream able works but doesn’t allow direct linking. Imgur sucks. Everything else I find is not free or doesn’t allow direct linking.
I used to use cat box but it’s not reliable. Stream able works but doesn’t allow direct linking. Imgur sucks. Everything else I find is not free or doesn’t allow direct linking.
I rolled my own, as I grew frustrated with catbox limitations of filetypes and sizes. Mine looks like shit, but it works and its purpose is for embedding/linking, so it doesn’t matter.
Mine is more geared towards “publishing” in that users (I don’t want to deal with the headache that is anonymous uploads) have a control panel displaying all their uploaded files and then choose what should be available to the public, and whether it will also be available via bittorrent.
Next up is setting up the signup system so users can actually be added without me running a shell script. I’ve been meaning to implement a sort of sign-up-via-lemmy feature, in that if you’re a lemmy user without trash reputation, you can use an OTP to upload files associated with your username@instance instead.
It’s not production ready yet, but it works well enough for testing. Most of what I’ve posted/embedded for the past half a year has been from my own host.