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.

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[–] Crul@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de and @Stamets@startrek.website for the mentions :).

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.ca 12 points 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 !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca for my posts

Go to comic on artist's site
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"

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The famous @Crul@lemm.ee

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Indeed! They're awesome

[–] erlend_sh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Suddenly every comic post I’ve seen has source links included now!

Maybe it was already a more common practice than I realized, but it sure looks like the fediverse hivemind took my simple bit of feedback to heart and promptly began acting accordingly. I love it here 🥰

[–] manucode@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe contact the mods there to ask about meta-posts?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

The mods are pretty nice, you could probably post it and people will go with it :)