This might sound silly but I really do miss sending gifs. I think it gives lighthearted fun. However I do not want to use giphy or tenor api I would rather have a bunch of gifs self hosted and accessible on my home server.
Matrix has their sticker solution but from what I have gathered they can see that data in your chats. You can get a gif plugin but I am sure matrix and giphy can see your requests with it as well.
My solution as of right now is trying to host immich and having a gif album that is accessible by my users. Reason being is the ai may prove to be useful when searching for the perfect gif/reaction. I have ran into a problem though, I have no idea how to batch download gifs from giphy and tenor. It seems people don’t just share their gif collections all willy nilly like they do memes.
Is this the best solution? How would you go about self hosting such a service?
(And if you have large amounts of gifs… Can I have some 👉👈 🥺)
Sorry for the silly request for help 😂
Thank you all so much.
Can’t wait until this guy DDoS’s his home connection and his ISP calls wondering why tf his bandwidth skyrocketed overnight because of hotlinkers.
OP can use a Cloudflare tunnel which would take care of caching and prevent any accidental DDoS attacks.
So I just saw this on hacker news https://Hostingyourgif.live Might be of interest
Oops, looks like that’s the wrong URL. I found it on Hacker News, here’s the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42431065 https://hostyourgif.live/
This might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but there is a self-hostable image booru available on the flatpak repository called Hydrus. It’s essentially just a front end for a database you can run locally on your computer and organize images/videos by category. Add tags etc.