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
It depends exactly how you’re sharing things - I use “pCloud” for online storage, which allows sharing links to files and folders.
You can either share folders of things which can be previewed/downloaded within the pcloud website, or put them in the “public folder” which should allow direct linking to the files. It has no comments/social media style stuff tacked on - just files.
Their servers are in Switzerland, and they are considered to have good privacy.
However, they’re not open and it does cost money.
You can pay a one-off payment instead of monthly etc, if that makes a difference. I think when I got mine it was something like £200 for 2TB permanently, though that was quite some years ago now.
Note that they appear to be in a perpetual state of “special offer! 50% off!”, though the discount varies, I think it’s probably never “full price” - but if they’re presenting the price as “unmissable, limited time only”, I assure that it is “missable”.