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There’s another option- cloud hosting in a cloud you control. You can also put a CDN infront of a not-so-beefy home server to avoid getting overwhelmed.
I was about to reply that not every user should be expected to self-host instances, but checked where I was before hitting send. A CDN to front images is a great option, but iirc the cache headers still aren't sorted out properly, so be wary about fronting your whole Lemmy instance with a CDN.
I'd think that a few terrabytes in a server would mean that you wouldn't have to worry about image files for a while
edit: I'm an idiot and read it the wrong way sorry.
should I just rely on a larger company to handle it for me?
No, unless you have a paid contract with them that specifies heavy liability if they decide to screw you
Consider IPFS, because then the "who" is hosting the images doesn't matter as long as "someone" is.
I wouldn’t trust Imgur or any other cloud hosting for that matter. In addition to the risk of them closing up shop without warning, they could simply decide they don’t like you. (Looking at you Google.)
If all your looking for is remote photo storage and sharing, you don’t really need a “beefy” server. You could do that on something as low power as a rpi 3. It would be painfully slow but it would be doable. For that task you mostly just need storage. Possibly lots and lots of storage.
Here’s a few projects you might look at:
Personally, I use nextcloud and it works for my needs, but I’ve heard good things about photoprism. Piwigo looks interesting but I don’t know much about it.
Depending on your needs https://pixelfed.org/ might suit you as well.
You are talking about your own photos or photos you wanna share with others? If it is the former, with all due respect but I have to say it is insane to put them all to imgur. Heck even uploading them all to Google Cloud is a lot more reasonable.... If it is the latter, it is fine as long as you are not expecting the images to live forever.