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- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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In general having more original creators here posting their own work consistently is a good thing if we want to grow the platform.
Showing that it can be good to post here for creators will make more creators want to post here leading to an overall improvement in this community.
Quality over quantity, imo.
Comic artists have a big interest in creating consistent quality content... Because it's like their whole job...
While not everyone has the same tastes, so some comics (like this one for example) aren't something everyone wants to see, it's better for the creator to be here posting it so the individual user can just block her and never see them again. With the creator posting them they all come from the same source vs with random people posting where you have to stamp out each individual one.
Why?
One of the big problems people have with Lemmy atm is the lack of content. Convincing people that posting here is a good thing will pretty much entirely remove that. Plus comic makers very much have an interest in keeping the content QUALITY high as well so it won't just be more posts... It'll be more high quality posts.
This is a link aggregation website. It doesn't matter who posts the content. You're thinking of OnlyFans.
Which in this case is appropriate.
That's not responding to literally anything I said.
You're right. It doesn't matter who.
However, people who make and want to share content... Tend to make and share content...
Something that's good for a link aggregation site...
It really isn't. Self promotion is pretty terrible for a link aggregation site. You used to be limited in the ratio of what you could post between yours and other content. Then The Other Site decided it was social media. Now you want here to be social media too. No thanks 👍
It's got social (comments) And it's got media (some posts)
Therefore it is.... idk I don't feel like finishing the thought tbh
No, it isn't. Because, crucially, you're not supposed to care who the other people are. By your definition if 'social media', my Geocities guest book was social media.
Nobody cares WHO posts the thing. The important part is that people post.
Link aggregation sites need links to aggregate and those links need to be posted by SOMEONE.
People who make the things being linked tend to be more likely to post the thing in the link.
I have no idea how this is controversial. Why is posting your own memes/comics worse than posting someone else's content?
If it doesn't matter who posts it then there's literally no difference here except that more content is posted to Lemmy when the comic authors themselves are on the platform.
You can see exactly why in this very comment chain, people talking about organising followers to boost things etc
The point of a link aggregator is not to act as veiled marketing for social media accounts or cosplays. Posting your own shit is 9 times out of 10 just promotional crap. Like this. Lemmy doesn't need content that exists primarily to drive traffic elsewhere, or shit content for the sake of shit content.
It could certainly do without your shit contributions.