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Comic Strips

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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)

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      Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]
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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)

Web of Links

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Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.

It's inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don't know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.

Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called "self-promotion". On one hand, it wants Content... But it can't seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.

It's nice that we've got alternative spaces like this.

Anyway, have some links:

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[–] ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org 3 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)

Reddit can entirely go fuck itself.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 9 minutes ago

that seems to be their priority...

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago

I was banned for comparing israel to the nazis even though the whole fucking world agrees.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 4 points 37 minutes ago

huffman's ideal reddit is populated and moderated entirely by bots, and we're getting very close lol

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

Reddit's the worst. Hopefully this is exactly the sort of pitfall that Lemmy won't fail at.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 points 11 minutes ago
[–] speaksintv@lemmy.world 40 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (5 children)

I was there 14 years and never had a ban. Not even a warning. In the last 6 months I was banned 4 times for comments ranging from “ice gonna mess with someone exercising their 2A and find out” to pointing out a mod’s contradiction when he said Harris both was anti-gun AND admitted she said in an interview she carried a Glock. He kept messaging me in DMs via modmail (which you can’t block) even after I asked them to block me.

My final, site wide ban for every account linked to my device was for saying Don chomo’s seizing of immigrant bank accounts was akin to Jews having their property taken by nazis.

On appeal they actually replied that the permanent ban stays because I was “targeting a group of people”. I didn’t even know what to say.

However if it wasn’t for that dumb shit it was gonna be for something else. I was a top 1% commenter too.

Deleted all my accounts, removed the app, and won’t be back.

[–] jorymo@lemmy.world 1 points 30 seconds ago

I wish I at least got that much of an explanation. I lost my account there the other day for "multiple content violations on connected accounts" when I only had one account. I tried appealing and asking what the violations or other accounts actually were, and just got a reply saying the ban would be upheld without any answers

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 2 points 4 minutes ago

I had a similar experience. Years of use with no issue then suddenly an admin crackdown on anti-fascist comments.

Give it a few more years and I expect the site to be mostly bots talking to bots, subtly mentioning products and services in their comments.

Anyway, it's time for me to drink a Mnt Dew and eat some Cool Ranch Doritos as I play the new 007 First Light on my Xbox Series X.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

11+ year old account here. 🖐️

I deleted my only account before I could get any sort of ban. F—k that whole site, bro. I don't miss it.

The only thing that irks me is when people link me to a Reddit post. Then I see some comment that makes an incorrect statement (there's one in each post), and I'm unable to reply and correct them. 🙈

[–] Nima@leminal.space 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 39 minutes ago (2 children)

Grownups can also choose not to.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 32 minutes ago

Then pick a different word. Don't censor the one you obviously are half using anyway.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 4 points 24 minutes ago

then choose a word you don't have to censor.

censoring the word means you want what you said to have the weight of "fuck" but you're too cowardly to fully type it out.

if you wish to diminish its power by censoring it, then don't use it at all. there's tons of four letter words that can be used in its place.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago

Basically the same thing happened to me...

Reddit user for 10 years, 10,000+ karma, active in a lot of niche communities and even started a couple myself. All the sudden got banned multiple times in the span of a few months in 2025 for talking shit about Trump, ICE, China, and generative AI companies... And then I was perma-banned across all accounts and devices with any new account banned within a couple of hours of creation. Their loss.

I'm ashamed to admit that I was a too addicted to browsing and commenting Reddit multiple times a day. Like most social media, that's by design, as the algorithm is tailor-made to draw you in and keep you engaged.

It's much better for me, and for the internet at large, to just spend more time on the fediverse where I can be part of an actual community instead of a cog in some corporate data harvesting machine. I'm actually glad that Reddit requires an app these days to browse on mobile, because sometimes i find myself browsing reddit for a few minutes before the pop-up blocks me from continuing and then I remember to check the fediverse instead.

[–] Jessicat@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

I was there for a good while too but got baited by someone who started spamming me with messages repeating the same questions on the same comments when I stopped responding. I eventually told them to fuck off and got shadow banned. I appealed, gave it a week and then deleted the account and the app. I’m done with them. They won’t even stand by their own decisions and explain what rule I violated. They basically brick your account without even telling you, it’s such a weird policy.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 45 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Beep must have written the bot.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm getting multiple references to "Beep"... I'm clearly out of touch. Can you explain?

[–] killea@lemmy.world 31 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A lemmy user who likes to post comics and remove all references to the author/creator, I believe?

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 22 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

A bit further than that, they went on a little crusade insisting that attribution is advertisement. They kept making meta posts requesting that the rules in the comics community be amended to not allow attribution.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

And going on a one man brigading mission telling everyone who dared to post that they needed to crop the image themselves removing the artists name.

Going so far out of their way to remove the name/website/anything off the image themselves and reposting it in the same community.

Is beep still ~~alive~~ active? They're my one and only blocked member

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Is beep still ~~alive~~ active? They're my one and only blocked member

AFAIK, yes, and they've given up on their weird crusade.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

What an absolutely wild take and insane crusade to embark on.

They're my one and only blocked member

If you want another person to block, the lone mod in c/linuxsucks is a similar variety of unhinged

[–] sychthys@lemmy.world 87 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

While that's horrible and should not be happening at all...

...w...why's...why's the Reddit Alien is so caked up?

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 65 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] sychthys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Valid. Carry on.

I need more fun in my life.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago

Snoo has an absolute dumper.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 20 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

someone had to say it, that alien has ass. I'm not against a finely detailed ass in art, but this seems hardly the time nor place.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

Don't body shame

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Love and Hex is a great comic.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Wait wait wait wait wait. You're the author???

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

First they train AI on your data, then remove your attribution... Are they going full cartoon villains or what!?

I do upload my factorio memes/comics there as there's just not really as many people interested in them here, but if they are doing this then I'm going to advertise Lemmy until I get banned lol

They've also recently added a banner that takes up half of your screen if you go on their site without signing in.

The decision boggles my mind since a lot of Reddit's appeal to the layperson is that you can just go get answers on there. Or you used to be able to

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Readers can have a little Loss, as a treat.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 3 points 2 hours ago

I liked that

[–] TheDankMemegician36@thelemmy.club 27 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Good.

Reddit is shit and it deserves to die at the hands of its own stupidity.

[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

it was fun before it became ubiquitous. now it's a monster that's going to be the next Pinterest (ie getting blocked from my search results)

It was good before the feds killed its founder.

Not suprised at all how things have turned out.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Artists need to start DMCA/suing reddit for showing their images then, if they're no longer acting of benefit to artists.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We post to Reddit because there's a huge potential audience there. It's goofy that Reddit would take actions that dissuade us from using their site.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Lol, said the scorpion, lmao.

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't know reddit was doing this too. Last I heard of this was twitter having moderation or algo problems with links from what I remember.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

I think all these sites are blocking or hiding external links because they see people going to other websites as a threat to their dominance/profit.

[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

That cake though