Comic Strips
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
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π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
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ποΈ 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.
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𧬠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.
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π½οΈ 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!
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π 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.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
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π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) 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 π) will be removed.
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π΄ββ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
SΓ, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
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πΏ Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
- Jago
- Stonetoss
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
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
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2006-rabbit is somewhat right. It's a lot easier to do propaganda over a handful of radio and TV stations than when anybody can host their own podcast.
Can you imagine the hellscape the USA would be in if media was just 3 major networks? Trump has already shown how willing he is to use his power to control what's allowed on TV.
The propaganda is heavy controlled via a few companies. Google and Meta, primarily.
Iβd argue itβs worse, as now itβs intensely personalized, so everyone gets their own little shard of reality instead of one βaveragedβ version. That, and even with slants, the old networks did follow journalistic standards to some extent, while modern influencers are under no such obligation.
Yeah 2006-rabbit was right at the time, then the tech evolved again.
Google and Meta aren't controlling propaganda. They're just trying to make ad dollars.
Propaganda is something you lose money doing, because you're spending money (or using influence) to change minds.
They do when itβs in their business interest, though. They absolutely spend effort to skew opinions.
That's not propaganda. That's advertising. Google and Meta are ad companies.
Serious question; how are advertising and propaganda different, and are they different enough that the distinction matters?
Yes, they're different enough that the distinction matters.
Advertising is about selling things. The company buying an ad simply wants to sell their product or service. The advertiser simply wants to make money by showing an ad. An advertiser might accept an ad from Palantir one day and one from Amnesty International the next day. Or, in the case of Meta or Google, selling ads for both simultaneously.
Propaganda isn't about making money. It's a money-losing venture. The idea is to change people's minds, typically by deceit. Some people might say that a piece about the dangers of drinking and driving is propaganda, I think most would say it's an informational message.
There are cases where advertising and propaganda overlap. But, there are also many cases where they don't. It's very useful to have two distinct words to describe the two different phenomena.
Subtle Political advertising is most definitely propaganda
You don't need to spend money to spread propaganda if you own the means of spreading.
You're still spending money because you employ the people doing the spreading. They could be doing other things, so even if they were slaves there's an opportunity cost.
It's worth it though. Capitalist propaganda allows them to keep their wealth.
Ok, and? What point are you trying to make? Capitalism bad? Great, what's your workable alternative?
Democratic market socialism under a one world government. We achieve the one world government first.
Any day now.
Till then, maybe it would be a good idea to try to improve what we have now.
Agreed. We are forced to move the world leftwards one inch at a time.
yes, but do not discount how easily a huge part of the market was bought out and turned those decentralized broadcasters into free agent propagandists. rogan is the highest profile example but he's far from the only one, and it takes a lot less to buy smaller personalities
Rogan says a lot of dumb shit, but I don't think he's a "free agent propagandist". I don't think he's being paid to say that dumb stuff, at least not directly. I think it's more that he either believes it or he thinks it makes for podcasts that people will download / stream. I don't think that a Swedish media giant paid him a huge sum in order to spread propaganda, I think they did it because he had a huge audience and they thought that by making him exclusive to Spotify they could corner the market on podcasts. Luckily they were completely wrong.
The Russia Today / Tenet Media event did show that some right wing podcasters accepted money to knowingly or unknowingly launder Russian propaganda. But, these were much smaller podcasters than Joe Rogan. And, it shows that instead of the major 3 networks being forced to spread American propaganda, in the current media landscape there are so many smaller podcasters that not only can the US government not control the media, they can't even prevent foreign countries from buying airtime.
IMO the whole podcast space is a free for all. There's paid-for propaganda, but only some of it is American. Not all the top podcasts that Americans listen to are even American.
When the media was just 3 major networks, they had the power to say no to the government. These days their viewership is so low that they can be controlled by the government.
They never had the power to say no to the government. The government was more restrained in telling them openly and in public what they should say. But, they mostly obeyed in advance, slanting all their stories in a way that was "patriotic" more than it was truthful.