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Open Source
MediaGoblin is an open-source project, meaning its source code is freely available. This allows users and developers to modify and improve the platform according to their needs.
Extensible
MediaGoblin is designed to be highly extensible, allowing developers to add plugins and features easily to cater to specific requirements.
Privacy Oriented
Unlike many commercial media hosting services, MediaGoblin puts a strong emphasis on user privacy. Users control their own data, which is a significant advantage in the age of data breaches.
Federation Support
MediaGoblin supports federation, which allows instances of MediaGoblin to communicate with each other, creating a more interconnected and decentralized ecosystem.
Wide Media Format Support
MediaGoblin supports a wide range of media types, including images, video, audio, 3D models, and more, making it versatile for various media hosting needs.
>The organization and ideas should transcend an individual. It is never the case is my observation (as much as I want you to be correct). Any attempt to detach individual form the goals/idea of an organization leads to bureaucracy, incompetence, and perhaps most importantly authoritarianism of the evil kind. ( there are relatively benign versions of authoritarianism ) >when the ideas seem to be really more needed... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
The organization and ideas should transcend an individual. The organization right now seems headed for irrelevance, when the ideas seem to be really more needed now that ever. Right now he’s and his camp are in charge, so if he and the group want to run it into the ground so be it. Hopefully the ideas live on and some group can carry it forward. I always thing back to media goblin as something that should be... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
The closest one I can think of to imgur is Mediagoblin. Source: over 3 years ago
Personally, I wouldn't use Nextcloud for photos. Instead, I'd look at Lychee, Media Goblin or something dedicated to photo hosting. Lychee looks great, but turned me off because when I looked at it, it seemed to be like Apple Photos in that it puts image files in a database file instead of just raw files in folders. Source: almost 4 years ago
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