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[โ€“] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 69 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think creatives on Facebook overestimate their value to an extent, I use Facebook to see what my friends and family are doing, and because the sports I do are mostly arranged through Facebook pages.

The webcomics etc I follow are cool, but if they stopped posting I wouldn't really miss them all that much.

[โ€“] DashboTreeFrog 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agree, Facebook is not the platform fot creatives, especially not comic creators.

I was a huge Webcomic fan back in the days of things like Mega Tokyo, Real Life Comics, etc., and people used to make a living hosting their own content on their own sites making their own ad revenue and merch shops. Kinda hate that social media consolidation killed all that. I actually want to catch up with Something Positive since the creator has been making podcasts appearances and reminded me he exists and seeing his site still looking the way it did a decade ago is like looking into a time machine to when the internet was better.

Sorry for the rant, webcomics have just been on my mind and your comment helped open the floodgates ๐Ÿ˜…

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