[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
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shortwavesurfer
in reply to IO 😇 • • •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
kuno.anne.mediaSatyrSack
in reply to shortwavesurfer • • •shortwavesurfer
in reply to SatyrSack • • •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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dontbelievethis
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in reply to dontbelievethis • • •lemmy.zip/comment/21190669
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2025-09-01 13:07:39
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shortwavesurfer
in reply to dontbelievethis • • •cecilkorik
in reply to dontbelievethis • • •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")
WhyJiffie
in reply to dontbelievethis • • •humanoidchaos
in reply to dontbelievethis • • •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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flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)
in reply to yetAnotherUser • • •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
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in reply to underline960 • • •underline960
in reply to indomara • • •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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Chozo
in reply to indomara • • •hisao
in reply to IO 😇 • • •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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hisao
in reply to Chozo • • •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).
Chozo
in reply to hisao • • •With CSAM, you want to block uploading and downloading, because both are problematic for a host.
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.
hisao
in reply to Chozo • • •Parola filtrata: nsfw
At that point, if such content is already posted there and available for download, it doesn't matter if it is only allowed to be downloaded via clearnet or VPNs as well. Blocking VPNs doesn't make any difference here.
I've seen a debate regarding lemmynsfw with some people asking to turn off caching/proxying for images. I don't know what's their current status on this, but on my instance even thumbnails were not visible for catbox images. I'm not sure if it's disabled or it's the instance server itself having trouble accessing catbox.
Chozo
in reply to hisao • • •Parola filtrata: nsfw
My understanding is that it's for tracking/reporting purposes, and to mitigate future offenses by banning those IPs. You can report an IP to an ISP for CSAM violations, but it's not as useful when the user's on a VPN.
Yeah, I've also noticed that Catbox links don't seem to generate previews on Mbin, as well, so I suspect that may be a Catbox block of some sort. That's interesting... I wonder if that causes a Lemmy instance to attempt a live preview instead of giving you a cached one. If so, that seems like something that probably shouldn't be in place, IMO.
hisao
in reply to Chozo • • •Don't think even the most extreme actors go that far, link could be opened accidentally, etc...
Anyway, from what another poster here linked, it looks like Catbox might actually not be banning any VPNs at all on its own, this might be some kind of middleware/routing infrastructure issue.
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SolacefromSilence
in reply to hisao • • •TheOneAndOnly
in reply to SolacefromSilence • • •SatyrSack
in reply to hisao • • •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…
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hisao
in reply to SatyrSack • • •tal
in reply to IO 😇 • • •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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Elvith Ma'for
in reply to A_norny_mousse • • •A_norny_mousse
in reply to Elvith Ma'for • • •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.
humanoidchaos
in reply to IO 😇 • • •How is catbox hosted?
If they're renting VPS hardware, then they're getting scammed.
They should set up self hosting with their own hardware and a VPN. It will cut down on the recurring costs significantly.
Don't pay for others' stupidity, if you can avoid it.
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