One of the best features of Lemmy is that it supports a combination of image and text. I wish including the source link of a comic would be a standard practice on the fediverse, just like alt-text already is.

Source links are great for:

  • Properly crediting and driving traffic to artists
  • Checking authenticity
  • Preventing image degradation for re-shares

p.s. I was thinking of posting this as a meta-post in /c/comicstrips but I only saw guidelines for how to post comics there.

  • Crul@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    A couple of tools to help finding the original sources:

    • dessant/search-by-image: Browser extension for reverse image search
    • SauceNAO’s “Image Search Options” addon: Firefox - Chrome
    • Reverse image search engine URLs (replace XXX with the image URL):
      • Google: https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=XXXX
      • Bing: https://www.bing.com/images/searchbyimage?cbir=sbi&imgurl=XXXX
      • TinEye: https://www.tineye.com/search?url=XXXX
      • Yandex: https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&url=XXXX
      • SauceNAO: https://saucenao.com/search.php?url=XXXX

    Also, thanks to @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de and @Stamets@startrek.website for the mentions :).

  • Stamets@startrek.websiteEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    There are some users who do this (me being one of them) and there’s another user named Crul (If i remember correctly) who’s adding the links in the comments. It’s a start.

    Definitely support the idea

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      The mods are pretty nice, you could probably post it and people will go with it :)

  • erlend_sh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Suddenly every comic post I’ve seen has source links included now!

    Maybe it was already a more common practice than I realized, but it sure looks like the fediverse hivemind took my simple bit of feedback to heart and promptly began acting accordingly. I love it here 🥰