Is there a FOSS alternative to gfycat for hosting short video clips? With gfycat shutting down, I’m looking for other options.

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    What features are you looking for? As others have said, if you just want somewhere you can store images yourself, you don’t even need software aside from a webserver and something to upload with.

    But there’s also things like user accounts, tagging, browsing/discovery, plus whatever else gfycay does/did.

    Anyway, just to actually give you a suggestion, chevereto is used by a friend and it’s a lovely user experience (can’t tell you about the admin side, though). [edit: This uses folders to organise - no tagging - so it might not meet your needs, which is why I was asking]

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      Have seen that one and looks like a nice option, but the site and docs have some gaps: can I put metadata/tags on the images in addition to the name for searches later? Also, can I put a description on the folder itself in addition to the description of each image? If both are “yes” I need to set up a small server.

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        You can add a title and description to images, folders, albums (what we’ve been calling folders), sub-albums, etc. You can search on those, but it’s not a structured thing like tags. I guess you could just store some JSON in there but you might need to get smart with your queries to search. Afraid I have no idea if there’s plugins, or even if what I’ve been using is a recent and/or unmodified codebase.

        I think it’s more designed for photo uploads, as there’s an option to keep exif data, and it automatically makes images of different sizes (including your original, maybe massive upload).

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          All noted, thanks! I see there’s a Docker option, should do a quick local install and see if i like it for my stuff, although my use case is less “vacation photos” than “sharing memes” like OP, hopefully it’ll work for this