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[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 89 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I love webcomics. Makes me sad to come across a good webcomic that only publishes on Instagram and had no RSS feed. It is upsettingly common.

[–] Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

worse is when they only post on twitter

[–] rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wouldn't consider that worse. At least if they post on twitter I can get an RSS feed via xcancel or other alternative frontends. So far I haven't found a good/consistent workaround for artists who exclusively post on Instagram or Tiktok.

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

sadly it doesn't support RSS feeds, so you have to remember to check the accounts manually.

[–] Sequence5666@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And it is ad based , so why watch ads to enjoy comics?

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I use ad blockers on all my devices, so I haven't seen a single ad when opening the website.

[–] Sequence5666@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even with pihole the ads appear on firefox mobile.

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm using uBlock Origin on Ironfox and NextDNS, and I'm yet to see an ad.

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

are you familiar with RSS Bridge? it adds a bunch of workarounds to create RSS feeds for websites that don't support one. there's unfortunately no working Instagram bridge as far as I know, but it works for TikTok. there used to be a few proxy websites like OffTiktok that opened TikTok posts (and you could set them up to redirect automatically via LibRedirect), but it looks like there are no more, so for the few people that I want to follow there and who don't post their videos anywhere else, I just use yt-dlp to download the videos and watch them locally. a bit of a pain, I know.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Shows you what they really care about.