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Im OK with social media as long as it has RSS. But that also means no insta and no twitter.
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It costs money to host things
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Yeah like $10 a month for a comic.
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How much did they make by you seeing it here?
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You realize people make money from social media, right?
Obviously not this one but the profitable ones.
18k likes and 2200 shares.
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Yes, absolutely! But the suggestion to self host when you're not even contributing to their income comes across as a little unjustified.
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I'm not understanding your comment.
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- Comment 1: Why do some comic artists only post to social media?
- Comment 2: It costs money to make a website.
- Comment 3: It only costs $10 to make a website.
- Me: The comic artist is not making any money right now from us on Lemmy.
- You: Social media platforms are profitable.
- Me: Yes, they are. Additionally, I believe that comment 3 is unfair because that person is not paying towards the $10 for the comic artist to make their own website.
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No, it really, seriously, doesn’t. People that rely on social media are just lazy and ignorant.
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And it gives you some degree of control over reposts and people stealing content. If your not on the platform you cant really contest claims against a video or post.
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Plenty of ways to host for free, even with a custom domain. (Though the domain is $15 per year) Like GitHub. Or you can even just use Tumblr with a custom domain.
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Maybe they don’t want their comics browsed.
Used to be, you got one comic with the sunday paper. There was no bingeing your favorite comics you just waited until they came out.
My guess is they don’t have enough material for a whole collection yet, and they’re using social media as feedback mechanism
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Oh no, they're missing out on those three people. lol
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A lot more than that ignore the meta ecosystem.
The same reason we're here instead of on Reddit.
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Lemmy is a rounding error with regards to the size of large social media.
Also, most of us are here not because we're small-social media enthusiasts but because of Reddit's business decisions.
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Used to be, you got one comic with the sunday paper. There was no bingeing your favorite comics you just waited until they came out.
I mean, this is true if "used to be" means "prior to WWII" (or maybe even earlier). Publishers have been putting out collections of comic strips in book form for a very long time - I grew up in the '70s reading Pogo compendiums published in the 1960s.
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There are a billion more people on Instagram that will see a comic there than actually go to websites to read comics.
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Bit like an internet feudalism in a way!
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Yeah I was a bit surprised that Sarah Anderson doesn't have her own site
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Is it not this?
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It looks like it, though I can't see her most recent comics.
I found her stuff mostly here: https://www.gocomics.com/sarahs-scribbles/2024/09/25
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Yeah that's actually why i had to ask because i didn't recognize the works. Odd.
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Says the person posting a comment on social media instead of bitching about this on their personal blog that nobody would read. lol
Not that you're wrong, of course, but you can't blame people for wanting to be where the other people are.
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As a fanart hoarder, the number of great artists I know of who seem to exclusively post their work on Twitter, a completely unsearchable platform that lossy compresses anything you upload to it and makes it a pain in the dick to get highest quality downloads, as opposed to a browsable upload platform like deviantArt, Pixiv, or Tumblr, infuriates me.
I think I know why a lot of them do it, too. To them, their work is intentionally ephemeral. They want to draw a thing, release it to the world, be admired for a day, and let it fade away into the aether. They don't want a browseable archive of their past work. Art they draw is disposable. Twitter is the best platform for this, as everything on Twitter is naturally consumed this way. That, and its audience is way larger than any of the other platforms I mentioned, so they get more eyes on their work.
Yeah, an archive exists on Twitter, but unless you want to scroll scroll scroll through every single tweet they've ever made in reverse chronological order, you're never going to find what you're looking for without some kind of external indexing tool. All of this before Elon bought it and further enshittified it within an inch of its life. You can't even browse posts without being logged in anymore.
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