I just built a new image host since I saw catbox was starting to falter. It's a bit like pic8 in that it uploads to other sites but is less affiliated with Poal.

One difference is that images will be public and browsable. It helps with moderation. Having worked on pic8 with picman before, the issue is only one in 20,000 images need moderation but its basically impossible to do by yourself just to find that one image that needs it. By making it public the very rare issue of moderation is resolved because there are more people looking through the images. As you know u.smutty.horse had to shut down uploads over the issue.

So if you want an image host with duplication and redundancy, and one low cost enough to stay up forever, and to not shut down uploads over bad uploads like smutty horse, and to not ask third parties to host unmoderated content (what pic8 did to me when I was running a more traditional host on jssocial.pw), then I think this is the recipe.

There is a delay in it going out to other hosts. Right now that's 3 minutes. Once more people are using it and browsing is set up that will be tied to N number of eyes having seen it and having an opportunity to report before it goes out to other servers. That might be 30 minutes, an hour, or a day. But the point is eventually your uploads will be backed up on multiple servers and you have the same consistency advantages and cost reduction advantages as pic8.

I think it might be a good replacement for catbox since there have been purges and sometimes its down. Use it if it pleases you.

https://img.gvid.tv