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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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Not sure if forums are dead. I still get some information from (German) forums where the hardcore techies or enthusiasts hang.
You used to be able to find forums on any weird subject. Tech stuff has always been the easiest to find, it's basically one of the only subjects for which you can even find somewhat active Lemmy communities (!).
Almost everything else has become Reddit communities or Discord servers.
or even worse than Reddit communities or Discord servers, they're facebook groups a lot of the time too. I feel like I can't find any association or organization for well, any sort of activity, without needing a fucking facebook account to be able to join their group on there.
Reddit is getting there fast really, popup after popup of constant nagging and such a terrible enshittified UI they just had to kill any effort to make it better by closing their API.
Discord servers are invisible to the outside world, which means you can't discover the ones you might be interested in. And once you're in, hope you don't have to look for something in particular, because search function is terrible and the UI is actively fighting against you when you try to look any message farther back than a page or two. It's really made for discussion, they tried getting better at being a content source but they still suck at it.
But yeah, any content that's on Facebook may as well not exist for me. My account (that I had already created only so I could access walled stuff) has been closed for more than a decade now.
Yeah, mikrocontroller.net is still going strong :) The internet overall just was more interesting than today, simply because big corporations didn't pollute it yet with their garbage.