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[Important] Catbox Needs Your Help

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

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

[Important] Catbox Needs Your Help -

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shortwavesurfer

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You could also set up a page on kuno.anne.media/.

It's a Monero donation platform, so even if they were to remove your page, the donation wallet you set up for it would still be able to receive donations even without them.

Kuno – Fundraise with Monero

Raise money or donate to a good cause with Monero. Peer-to-peer, KYC-free and easy-to-use.

^{kuno.anne.media}

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SatyrSack

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What is the value add of this product? The donors and recipients still need to set up a Monero wallet and everything to use the service. A recipient may just as well instead use any other means (social media, etc.) to announce that they are accepting Monero donations at xyz address.

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shortwavesurfer

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Mainly goal setting and tracking. You could say, for example, that your goal is to raise 50 Monero, and each donation to that address will show up on the site as adding to it, and the donor can leave you a message if they wish.

It allows everybody to see exactly how close you are to your 50 Monero goal, etc.

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db2

in reply to IO 😇 • 3 mesi fa • •

Now patreon is enshittifying. They sure don't mind taking their cut from people whose model is shoving things inside themselves though.

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dontbelievethis

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Any reliable alternatives you know of?

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shortwavesurfer

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lemmy.zip/comment/21190669

shortwavesurfer

2025-09-01 13:07:39

You could also set up a page on kuno.anne.media/.
It's a Monero donation platform, so even if they were to remove your page, the donation wallet you set up for it would still be able to receive donations even without them.

Kuno – Fundraise with Monero
Raise money or donate to a good cause with Monero. Peer-to-peer, KYC-free and easy-to-use.
^{kuno.anne.media}

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dontbelievethis

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But that is just monero isn't it? When I say alternative I mean feature parity.

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shortwavesurfer

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Ah, yeah. Kuno is Monero only

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cecilkorik

in reply to dontbelievethis • 3 mesi fa • •

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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WhyJiffie

in reply to dontbelievethis • 3 mesi fa • •

maybe liberapay, but they too depend of payment processors like stripe and paypal

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asudox

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Apparently one of the devs got a confirmation from NLnet for a grant, so GNU Taler will probably become another payment option in Liberapay.

github.com/liberapay/liberapay…

nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Liberap…

Taler

GNU Taler is a payment method designed to provide an unparalleled level of privacy to the payer. Related issues: #1062 and #1268. Implementation guide: create sql/branch.sql add a 'taler' value to ...

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WhyJiffie

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that sounds great!

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humanoidchaos

in reply to dontbelievethis • 3 mesi fa • •

We should normalize just sending them money directly through crypto.

Why have more middlemen than we need? It it because we're idiots getting taken for a ride?

I know what I'll put my money on, every time.

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yetAnotherUser

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OP, this was three months ago

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flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)

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They even had a banner on the site for a little bit about how successful they were able to transfer support from Patreon:

web.archive.org/web/2025061015…

Catbox

The cutest free file host you've ever seen

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indomara

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What is cat box?

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underline960

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Image storage platform, like imgur.

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indomara

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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.

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underline960

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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.

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indomara

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Aah, ok. Sad. ❤️

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kubica

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Lol, I see they haven't improved... anyway...

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Chozo

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I think they need money first, before increased traffic.

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Wildmimic

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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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Chozo

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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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SolacefromSilence

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No VPN here and can never see catbox files, it's like they're gone already

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tal

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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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DUMBASS

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Website says they're 50$ short.

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A_norny_mousse

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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?

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Elvith Ma'for

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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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A_norny_mousse

in reply to Elvith Ma'for • 3 mesi fa • •

OK so it's the same. That's sad.

Weirdly, the website loads fine, but clicking on the litterbox link just loads forever.

Interesting: the catbox FAQ mentions pomf.se which redirects to uguu.se which supports API uploading and is FLOSS/self-hostable.

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SatyrSack

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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:

web.archive.org/web/2025082221…

Catbox

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Chozo

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This would be somewhat believable excuse if they only blocked uploading/posting under VPNs.

With CSAM, you want to block uploading and downloading, because both are problematic for a host.

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

I'm 99% sure it doesn't work that way. The Lemmy instance caches a preview image for posted links. But scrolling past without clicking a link will not expose your IP to Catbox unless you have an auto-preview setting enabled that opens/caches every link you scroll past automatically, which I don't believe is enabled by default.

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Chozo

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Parola filtrata: nsfw

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TheOneAndOnly

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Do you use Verizon for Internet? It's been my experience that the only way I can open catbox links is if I'm not connected solely to Verizon's network.