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
    3·
    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 @[email protected] and @[email protected] for the mentions :).

  • Stamets@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1·
    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
      1·
      1 year ago

      Crul is amazing with the detailed links!

      I’m posting less there now (because I haven’t been reading as many comics recently), but I used [email protected] for my posts

      1. Go to comic on artist’s site
      2. Right click on comic and post to Lemmy

      It will add the image as the URL, and add the post link as “source: https://examplecomic”