Looking for advice on photo hosting

[andrewducker]

I was using Instagram as the place to post my photos to that could then be reposted to all of my other socials.

(It was particularly useful as it was the only place that could post to Facebook)

Except Instagram have decided to remove that API unless you're a Creator.

So now I'm wondering what's a good place to post photos to that let's you then read from it to repost elsewhere.

Anyone got suggestions?

Comments

[rhythmaning]

I think there is a Fedi-flickr like site - maybe Pixelfed?

(Yes I googled it - PixelFed https://pixelfed.org/ )

I've not used so can't say anything rational about it, but if you're ok with Mastodon I'd have thought it would be fine for you.

[flaviomatani]

I use Pixelfed and it's ok. Only problem is reach -not many people you know will be on it, but you can repost to Mastodon without any problem. When pasting link to FB, say, it only pastes the link not a preview. There is an 'embed' option (which I haven't used much) but no way to automatically repost to other sites.

[flaviomatani]

In fact I believe you can post to Pixelfed from a Mastodon account (although I haven't done this but it is part of the Fediverse thing)

[symbioid]

Is Flickr still around?
Will DW let you share videos out of site(?) I imagine probably not since it's not a massive corp.
Photobucket folded, IIRC.

A lot of times I just make copies to each place if it's a place I can upload to, but that's kinda annoying, especially if you want to just delete in one place and it's gone everywhere.

Hope you can find an answer. The only alternative I can think is buying a web host and uploading pics to the server there.

[teaotter]

I host my images at imgur.com, but I've never tried posting to Facebook from there.

[cellio]

I've been burned by photo hosting sites going away or changing their access policies (yes I am still bitter about Picasa...). Since I have a domain, I've switched to hosting anything I care about sticking around there. I don't know if you have web space you control directly, and yes it's more hassle this way, but I think it's worth considering, if the option is available to you.

[andrewducker]

That's somewhat tempting. I'll look into it.

[cellio]

Also, because I am me, the stuff I host on my domain is in a private git repository, so if I ever needed to recover something, I could.

[movingfinger]

this is the way

[andrewducker]

What tool are you using to host things there?

I think I can use anything that supports RSS.

[cellio]

Err, direct upload and manually-constructed <img> tagging, sorry. ("Direct upload" is git pull in my case, but otherwise would be sftp.)

Maybe an example would help. The source of this post includes:

I managed to snap a picture of mom earlier today:

<img src="https://cellio.org/images/2024/robin-2024-04-18.jpg"/>

Later I saw her fly away, startled by some small sound I guess, so I quickly confirmed my suspicion, holding a camera up at arm's length and shooting blind:

<img src="https://cellio.org/images/2024/robin-eggs-2024-04-18.jpg" alt="3 blue eggs"/>

I wrote that HTML by hand, after getting the image files onto my web server.

I'm not sure how RSS plays into image hosting. I mean, RSS provides a feed, i.e. it's showing you the most recent stuff (like on a blog), but I don't know how you'd use it for "direct addressing", so to speak.

[andrewducker]

Ah!

When I said "I'm wondering what's a good place to post photos to that let's you then read from it to repost elsewhere." I meant *automatically*. As in "Whenever I post a photo it needs to automatically end up on my various socials".

[cellio]

Oh! I'm sorry, I totally misunderstood that. Yeah, in that case, none of what I've said will be helpful. I hope you find a good solution!

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[channelpenguin]

Since GitHub was mentioned - could you do it with GitHub actions? On a quick look, seems others have done this...

[andrewducker]

I'd post the photo on GitHub actions?

[channelpenguin]

Push photos to GitHub. Have a pipeline that executes an Action (or several) to post to your social media accounts via their APIs.

It's just a concept, it seems other people have done similar things.

Or find a paid tool.
Or just do it manually. Might be less cumulative effort.

I'm probably not being helpful, sorry. I guess I've not understood your requirements well enough

[andrewducker]

To be fair, I don't think I've explained them well enough.

[channelpenguin]

Lol. "The cobbler's children have no shoes". We should both know better!

Asked Facebook's AI

[puffinintrepid]

https://ibb.co/1zMhHg9

I think Flicker, Zapier, IFTTT, Pinterest are feasible options.