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Comic Strips

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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

Rules

  1. 😇 Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.

  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
    • Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.

  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.

  4. 📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due

    • Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!

  5. 📋 Post Formatting

    • Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      ✅ Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/

  6. 📬 Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 🖐) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 🖐) will be removed.

  7. 🏴‍☠️ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]

  8. 🍿 Moderation

    • We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

Web Accessibility

Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think this is a good alternative to spaces like reddit, but so far this reminds me a LOT of early reddit or digg, meaning it will go in one of two directions - fade off into obscurity or get popular enough to get eyed by capital and political forces and eventually digested. Eventually all online spaces are going to be either completely compromised by populations of grifters and bots, or they will be the last holdouts of "pure" online communication, slowly declining in numbers until they're like so many empty servers and forums out there already.

I mean, it could very well hold out if there are enough dedicated people who work to preserve the space and moderate it effectively, but my experience in moderating tells me that it's often a losing game once there's blood in the water. People have a hard time keeping up with and staying dedicated to upholding consistent values in moderation. I've seen huge spaces fall just because the mods got tired of pruning and shepherding the flock, so they get replaced by less dedicated people, who then get replaced by subversive forces with entirely different motivations.

I suppose it's possible we could train and maintain benevolent AI systems to guard against the armies at the gates, but even that is just an escalation of a back-and-forth war between the last vestiges of human creativity and collaboration, and the tidal forces of commercialization, political manipulation and mental manipulation, which are going to be far more powerful than we can even imagine.

I remain hopeful that spaces like this will subsist long into the century, but more and more I am doubting our abilities as biological beings, products of evolution, to preserve anything that matters.

(My old days of reddit fame were a lot more optimistic and cheery. A lot has happened.)

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah… seeing in the century time frame… I’m barely able to fathom six months or a year. I can see Lemmy growing at its current rate for a decade without becoming dog shit for certain.

There is a percentage of the mainstream getting fed up with dogshit. They are sniffing around.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've imagined that there may yet be a strange "golden age" of underground, tightly controlled "human internet" using new methods to verify users across a network of sites and forums. It would be small, with some kind of gatekeeping system like a one-time fee you pay just like the glory days of Somethingawful, and maybe some kind of video-chat with administrators to get cleared to participate if you're a human and an adult who can form coherent sentences. If it works well and people participate and form even a somewhat active community, I could envision such a network becoming an incredibly trendy, underground movement that would feel a lot like the olden days of usenet and IRC and AOL messenger/chat rooms, but with today's access to technology and communication tools.

I can't imagine such a thing would last too long. Maybe a few years before someone finds a way to compromise it. Humans are just too good at finding ways to tear things down rather than keep building.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Somehow you are making me feel more responsible for supporting this instance… how much are people donating?

I realize that was not your intention… and I don’t really use this place that much… but I am heartened by the thoughtfulness and generosity of the people that will share an old thread like this… Like… I don’t know you but I like your thinking. I often feel that I have a lot to learn from the folks here.

Do you go back to the system of interconnected BBS systems that allowed you to have a friend a thousand miles away and you could send emails back and forth? And play space trader? This is how far I go back. Pre-aol

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While I got connected shortly after the force of nature known as AOL washed over the nation, and we all were ushered into a world of instant messages from long-lost relatives and "A/S/L?" from strangers, I did play around a lot with the older systems, I learned DOS, IRC and some of the later iterations of BBS's that later evolved into message boards of various kinds where you had no idea what people were sharing until you actually open the file.

As a result, I quickly learned how to reformat my drives and clear trojans, I got a crash-course in Windows and how networks and computers work out in a trailer deep in the desert, I wish I could say I capitalized on that and became a pioneer of technology or a wealthy entrepreneur, but I was a sheltered, homeschooled, Christian kid until I could escape and have a real life way too late in life.

I am curious though, what brings a fellow old-timer to a place like this? I am here usually feeling like I am surrounded by kids, or at least very young and socially isolated people, the kind who often retreat to sites like Lemmy for the comfort of a community that largely won't push back on them or make them feel threatened, which I understand fully, despite not believing it to be a healthy indulgence over long periods of time.

The handful of "mature" people I've talked to have been... less than convincing. But like I said, I am not usually here to make friends so it hasn't bothered me. You seem a curious soul and curiosity is a rare, rare bird lately. People come to the internet to speak the mind for attention, rarely to learn and even more rarely to learn about other users.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I am a very curious person.

And like many of our fellow Lemmings, I want to envision a society that values human beings and puts people before profits.

I have been pushing back against enshitification for as long as I can remember.

You remember Web 1997 — that was the peak. Obviously we needed Wikipedia, so we can go as far forward as its birth but that overlaps with the corporatizing of the internet…

So what’s an old timer like me doing around here? Learning. Meeting cool people. Feeling like I’m doing one small act of resistance in a world that wants to turn everyone into this Matrix batteries.

So… I feel a lot of the time it’s me against the goddamn tech.

Case in point: two factor.

It’s another layer… another thing that can go wrong.

Had to upgrade my 2014 laptop and got a machine with finger print blah blah blah.

I refuse to use it.

The machine fights me via browsers.

I finally have to use incognito mode on almost every browser I open or I can’t get into my employers platform to do my fucking work.

I’m here to be around people who don’t like to be bullied by faceless megaliths.

And just the random cool people who will pursue a cool thread.