Re: [GitLab] Gravatar vs libravatar

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Nicolas Dufresne 
<nicolas ndufresne ca> wrote:
> So it's a gain in privacy if you want to host your own. I'm surely not
> the only one that isn't going that extreme in keeping control over
> couple of my pictures flying around and won't go that far.

The gain in privacy comes from disabling gravitar integration, not 
hosting your own avatar service.

> That being said, for people my me, where to I upload yet another
> picture ? Any free hosted services ?

Just use libravatar.org. The website design is not the greatest, but if 
you look above the orange Contribute! button there is a "Create a free 
account" link... click that, confirm your email, upload your avatar, 
done. It's just the free software replacement for Gravatar, really that 
simple. I assume you trust libravatar.org not to sell our IP addresses, 
avatar lookup history, email contact graphs, etc. to advertising 
companies.

Or just manually upload your avatar to gitlab.gnome.org. The only 
reason I bothered with libravatar.org was that it was required to set 
an avatar on Fedora infrastructure. I don't really care whether we 
enable libravatar or not, just that we disable Gravatar.

Michael