[Image & File Storage Features]

[Image & File Storage Features]
As I get closer to the end of G+'s run, I'm more concerned about image storage in relation the posts I make. I do art, and I also work in virtual worlds (like Open Simulator) and in both cases I want to make posts that show images (and to a lesser extent videos) of both. Now using G+ has spoilt me in that regard, in that it was easy just to upload a copy of an image directly to the post, and there was no extra cost for storing that. This was important to me because I'm on a fixed income, and paying a subscription fee for storage is something I have to consider carefully (one reason I don't use Adobe's Cloud apps). It was possible to copy the URL of the images on G+ to share elsewhere. Google Photo complicated things in that after it was split from G+ ,if you uploaded more than one image you couldn't add individual descriptions for each. It was possible to do that in GPhoto, but that was only useful when you were in GPhoto,, it wasn't in G+.

In any case, G+ still gave you free storage, but of course when G+ goes, so will those images. For me then, being able to have images in my posts at where ever I move to after G+ (currently MeWe and Friendica) is important. There are only two possibilities (and a mix of both can be done), using storage on your Social Media platform to store uploaded files, and using an outside service to store those and link to them appropriately.

So I'll be putting my findings on each of those strategies in the comments to this post. I'm not trying to promote any particular platform or service, merely list the options. Feel free to add your own findings on this.