ImageServer on Cloudron

[LoudLemur]

ImageServer is a tool to share images online, a bit like imgur, but it uses the amazing IPFS (Inter Planetar File System) technology.

https://github.com/ekumahost/ImageServer

https://ipfs.io

One enormous advantage of IPFS is that you can pin content you value to help keep it available for others.

There is an instance of ImageServer available to try here:
https://imageserver.link/

Here is an URL to an ImageServer image:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWopWY7xoukShEw1KYB5QXu5zWsYqnKWYx4Y9dBiYD49C

Here is the image:

You can see the IPFS CID (Content Identification) in the URL (it begins Qm...)

If you are running IPFS, you could reach that image just by using the IPFS CID, without using HTTP:

QmWopWY7xoukShEw1KYB5QXu5zWsYqnKWYx4Y9dBiYD49C

If you think that is a great image, you could download and pin it on your system to help keep it available and improve the CDN (Content Delivery Network).

A great way to get started with IPFS is by using ipfs-desktop, which is very easy to deploy on your own machine but I think it would be nice to make it available on Cloudron too. I shall add an App Wishlist for ipfs-desktop.