Flickr alternative?

[scott]

‘Morning all -

Time has come. Want off flickr. Aside from the $75 annual fee that started at like $15, it’s become a cesspool. With the acceleration of AI and access to software, stealing images and modifying them to p0rn is now a large part of the activity there. My daughter’s Alma mater just scrubbed 80000 images from their flickr after finding them being used thusly. So, I’m out.

The kicker is, I’m sure this is a problem everywhere now. I’m not sure it’s actually safe to have portraiture stored online with any public access at this point. Not sure if it’s worth setting up my own server to store and link what I want (Mike: is that about right?). I’m guessing the terminus here is to pull all of it and store locally.

Separately, anyone have experience with a similar service for less money? I’d still like to post other images that I’m less concerned about. Flickr has, in addition to everything else, priced themselves out of my options.

How I pine for the days of ftp…

Scott

[alexvaras]

It would be good having a place that your photos are not stolen and they can be seen but I’m afraid that place doesn’t exists.
I will remove my renovation playment from Flickr and next April I will see what to do…