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@cm0002@libretechni.ca I appreciate the crosspost, but I’d prefer you not crosspost to this comm, because I’ve posted my comic to two comms and I think having my stuff in 3 comms is a bit much and is a little too close to spamming for my taste. So can you please remove? Thank you!
I just crosspost from .ml as part of boycotting efforts of the .ml instance
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
So I’d like to ask if you’d consider switching to this comm instead for your 2 comms?
This comm hasn’t been welcoming to my stuff in the past, so I’m not sure I have an answer. .ml has a bigger audience than my own comm, and I was banned from .world instance (not comics related) under a different name so I don’t wanna get hit with ban evasion by posting over there. So I just sorta stuck with my own, and .ml just based on comm subscriptions.
But, I guess, keep it here and see what happens, because I do support people boycotting whatever they want, and sticking to their own values. So carry on I guess. Thanks for the explanation. Last time tho, someone accused me of being you, so it’s kinda tricky and I don’t want any drama.
Thanks for understanding, yea there’s a few users who defend .ml and like to throw accusations around lmao they think I’m everywhere and everyone apparently
Sometimes your stuff seems like AI, even I did, but then I saw your post on your method so I dont think it’s AI anymore. now I think your style just unfortunately tends closer to “AI style”. But others might still think it’s AI so that might be why sometimes you don’t get a good reception.
I’ve been posting here a lot since I stopped posting to .world comms myself and it’s been pretty accepting so far of content as far as the mods go
There’s also !comics@sh.itjust.works but it’s also on the small side but any frequent enough contribution to even smaller comms helps grow them quickly
Meh, everyone’s stuff looks AI now, which was the the whole point and goal of AI. It’s not that people’s stuff looks like AI, it’s that AI looks like everyone’s stuff. If Diesel Sweeties came out to day, people would think it’s AI.
Especially since most of us cartoonists, either create on or finish up on the computer. I sketch my stuff out, then fill out a lot of builds and solids in Photopea cuz I ain’t gonna marker that shit all day. Plus I do a lot of resizing, cut and paste, flipping and clean up, so basically there’s no way to tell any difference between it and ai now.
I read up on what some other writers and illustrators say about it, and the overwhelming advice is to just ignore. I documented my method in my comm, and now I’m done defending. I’m not even that great of an artist anyway, so that’s why it’s hilarious to me. One guy said my stuff was AI because my drawings are so ugly, and no one would draw that way on purpose!! My gf loved that one. lmao
People will like or not like what I make, not my problem anymore. If people think they can create comics like mine by simply pushing a button and have AI do it all (good luck with that!), then not much I can do about it. Anyway, thanks for your support and the explanation!
