[Important] Catbox Needs Your Help
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[Important] Catbox Needs Your Help - Lemmy.zip
> tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill. Support Catbox Here [https://store.catbox.moe/] I use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy 😭 edit: to be clear I’m not affiliated with catbox, i just shared
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But that is just monero isn't it? When I say alternative I mean feature parity.
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I'm not sure it's a one-to-one fit.
It's not a community; it just hosts images. There's no comment section, for example.
Aah, ok. Sad.
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Really?? Christ, people need to advertise it there, Imgur has been imploding and the community has no idea where to go. It's been sad.
Lol, I see they haven't improved... anyway...
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OP, this was three months ago
They even had a banner on the site for a little bit about how successful they were able to transfer support from Patreon:
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But that is just monero isn't it? When I say alternative I mean feature parity.
Ah, yeah. Kuno is Monero only
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tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill.
Support Catbox HereI use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy
edit: to be clear I'm not affiliated with catbox, i just shared
I hate catbox. I can't see images posted via catbox because for some reason catbox is very actively and aggressively bans VPNs. Yeah, you heard that right: they ban VPNs, not only for posting, even for viewing! I managed to find one VPN server that worked well... for few weeks. Until it got banned as well. Someone once said catbox is a honeypot. Idk about that, but their VPN policy is definitely honeypot-tier.
Added: What's even more funny - imgur also used to ban VPNs, but my current server, at the moment I picked it I choose by criteria that both imgur and catbox and some third service should work, and few weeks later imgur still works while catbox don't, which means catbox bans VPNs more aggressively than imgur! Really makes you hmmmm.
Added: After reading SatyrSack reply I'm not sure anymore. Maybe it was too rash to blame Catbox. It's unclear who or what is responsible for the block, maybe neither the source nor the destination.
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I hate catbox. I can't see images posted via catbox because for some reason catbox is very actively and aggressively bans VPNs. Yeah, you heard that right: they ban VPNs, not only for posting, even for viewing! I managed to find one VPN server that worked well... for few weeks. Until it got banned as well. Someone once said catbox is a honeypot. Idk about that, but their VPN policy is definitely honeypot-tier.
Added: What's even more funny - imgur also used to ban VPNs, but my current server, at the moment I picked it I choose by criteria that both imgur and catbox and some third service should work, and few weeks later imgur still works while catbox don't, which means catbox bans VPNs more aggressively than imgur! Really makes you hmmmm.
Added: After reading SatyrSack reply I'm not sure anymore. Maybe it was too rash to blame Catbox. It's unclear who or what is responsible for the block, maybe neither the source nor the destination.
I don't know what VPN you use, but i have zero issues running Proton VPN and accessing catbox. Maybe some VPN nodes are used to attack Catbox and they are temp banned?
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Really?? Christ, people need to advertise it there, Imgur has been imploding and the community has no idea where to go. It's been sad.
I think they need money first, before increased traffic.
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I hate catbox. I can't see images posted via catbox because for some reason catbox is very actively and aggressively bans VPNs. Yeah, you heard that right: they ban VPNs, not only for posting, even for viewing! I managed to find one VPN server that worked well... for few weeks. Until it got banned as well. Someone once said catbox is a honeypot. Idk about that, but their VPN policy is definitely honeypot-tier.
Added: What's even more funny - imgur also used to ban VPNs, but my current server, at the moment I picked it I choose by criteria that both imgur and catbox and some third service should work, and few weeks later imgur still works while catbox don't, which means catbox bans VPNs more aggressively than imgur! Really makes you hmmmm.
Added: After reading SatyrSack reply I'm not sure anymore. Maybe it was too rash to blame Catbox. It's unclear who or what is responsible for the block, maybe neither the source nor the destination.
I'll be honest, I don't mind a free file host banning VPNs. Yes, VPNs have tons of legitimate uses, but they also have illegitimate uses that (what I understand to be) a one-man team is likely not prepared to deal with. They already have to deal with CSAM getting uploaded as it is.
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I hate catbox. I can't see images posted via catbox because for some reason catbox is very actively and aggressively bans VPNs. Yeah, you heard that right: they ban VPNs, not only for posting, even for viewing! I managed to find one VPN server that worked well... for few weeks. Until it got banned as well. Someone once said catbox is a honeypot. Idk about that, but their VPN policy is definitely honeypot-tier.
Added: What's even more funny - imgur also used to ban VPNs, but my current server, at the moment I picked it I choose by criteria that both imgur and catbox and some third service should work, and few weeks later imgur still works while catbox don't, which means catbox bans VPNs more aggressively than imgur! Really makes you hmmmm.
Added: After reading SatyrSack reply I'm not sure anymore. Maybe it was too rash to blame Catbox. It's unclear who or what is responsible for the block, maybe neither the source nor the destination.
No VPN here and can never see catbox files, it's like they're gone already
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But that is just monero isn't it? When I say alternative I mean feature parity.
When it's Visa, Mastercard, and the banks and governments responsible for fiat money itself who are cracking down, you're going to get exactly the "feature parity" you're asking for anywhere that is using that money. It's time to start looking into alternative currencies if you want to escape their control.
"Monero, it's not just for criminals anymore" (or maybe it is, because they're trying to make us all criminals if we don't adhere to their definition of "moral purity")
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tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill.
Support Catbox HereI use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy
edit: to be clear I'm not affiliated with catbox, i just shared
Didn't this happen a while back? I mean, I'm not saying that the financial issues are resolved, mind.
EDIT: Ah, yeah, some other people have pointed it out.
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but they also have illegitimate uses that (what I understand to be) a one-man team is likely not prepared to deal with
This would be somewhat believable excuse if they only blocked uploading/posting under VPNs. But they block viewing under VPNs as well, which you only do if your sole purpose is logging IP addresses of viewers. In this scenario catbox images posted to Lemmy for example, they don't only reveal your IP the moment they are loaded when you scroll your feed, they also associate it with the site from where the request was initiated (your Lemmy instance).
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tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill.
Support Catbox HereI use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy
edit: to be clear I'm not affiliated with catbox, i just shared
Website says they're 50$ short.
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tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill.
Support Catbox HereI use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy
edit: to be clear I'm not affiliated with catbox, i just shared
I often use litter.catbox.moe (auto-deleting) because I can upload via command line. But it's so slow sometimes that it's unusable for e.g. including images in comments. Is that also the case for catbox.moe proper?
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I often use litter.catbox.moe (auto-deleting) because I can upload via command line. But it's so slow sometimes that it's unusable for e.g. including images in comments. Is that also the case for catbox.moe proper?
When I click on catbox.moe images on Lemmy, I don't see a difference between being on a VPN, my WiFi at home, on mobile data oder a random Hotspot. It either loads like back in the days when we had dial up connections or in >90% of the cases I get a connection timeout. It's a pita to the point that I check the link on Lemmy before clicking on it and have a very hard time to not justify instantly down voting the poster for using that service.
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Any reliable alternatives you know of?
maybe liberapay, but they too depend of payment processors like stripe and paypal
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When I click on catbox.moe images on Lemmy, I don't see a difference between being on a VPN, my WiFi at home, on mobile data oder a random Hotspot. It either loads like back in the days when we had dial up connections or in >90% of the cases I get a connection timeout. It's a pita to the point that I check the link on Lemmy before clicking on it and have a very hard time to not justify instantly down voting the poster for using that service.
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I hate catbox. I can't see images posted via catbox because for some reason catbox is very actively and aggressively bans VPNs. Yeah, you heard that right: they ban VPNs, not only for posting, even for viewing! I managed to find one VPN server that worked well... for few weeks. Until it got banned as well. Someone once said catbox is a honeypot. Idk about that, but their VPN policy is definitely honeypot-tier.
Added: What's even more funny - imgur also used to ban VPNs, but my current server, at the moment I picked it I choose by criteria that both imgur and catbox and some third service should work, and few weeks later imgur still works while catbox don't, which means catbox bans VPNs more aggressively than imgur! Really makes you hmmmm.
Added: After reading SatyrSack reply I'm not sure anymore. Maybe it was too rash to blame Catbox. It's unclear who or what is responsible for the block, maybe neither the source nor the destination.
Their FAQ lists multiple reasons that various countries, ISPs, etc. block CatBox, and using a VPN is often mentioned as the solution. Here is an archive of their FAQ that you should be able to read from any connection:
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Their FAQ lists multiple reasons that various countries, ISPs, etc. block CatBox, and using a VPN is often mentioned as the solution. Here is an archive of their FAQ that you should be able to read from any connection:
Thanks, this is surprising! I assumed my VPN wouldn't ever block anything, because I've never seen that before, and thus the block was Catbox's fault, but from what they write in their FAQ I start to question this. Maybe there is some large scale intermediary/middleware/mitm that make this happen. Idk, this is the first time I see anything like this. The server I'm currently using is in Switzerland, but I've also had those blocks with multiple VPN servers in other EU countries.
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