@yuunikki Nice, this is a great trove. I thought initially that they only had single issues, but it looks like there is pretty good selection of full story lines. Thanks for replying.
I have tachiyomi but it gets rate limited if you download a lot
Really? Guess I haven’t been downloading much…only a few manga with 500+ chapters and page counts in the thousands, in the span of a day. Still not been capped.
Not sure about a do-all solution for the Manga side of things other than some outdated archive torrents or things hidden in the depths of usenet, but a free program called FMD2 can automate the downloading and CBZ-ifying of manga from hundreds of sources. it can act like a sonarr for manga once set up with series you follow and of course you can bulk download just at a slower rate due to the same limiting.
I posted for a while, but the responses were all kind of the same. There isn’t a lot of variety here: we mostly have the same viewpoint and we aren’t great at discussion.
Also, if you do comment why don’t you not comment?
Half-jokes aside, I post as I post 'cause I don’t see the questions/answers on Lemmy on a light search, albeit I may see them on Reddit or elsewhere, and want folks to be able to find responses/answers to similar questions here. Besides that I also like asking questions for more current responses than others that may be outdated or otherwise benefit from some current perspectives.
I would love to but then I’d have to restrain myself from not permanently rolling my eyes to the back of my head with some of the replies. I speak from experience elsewhere.
What do you mean? Negative or constructive criticism? Negative votes?
Hardship is a part of life. That goes to criticism as well.
I am willing to take risks of bad feels for the sake of trying to make places more active. Luckily I’ve been doing much better than what I first anticipated!
No pain, no gain.
I’m not complaining about the hardships of life. And it’s not necessarily the pointless criticism but replies from people who miss the point entirely, get random ideas of why I posted things, type up some throwaway nit-picking commentaries over the most trivial things, or just being all around rude and condescending instead of downvoting and moving on, etc. And what do I get in return for putting up with that? Imaginary internet points. I get the same feeling of participation from just commenting with a fraction of the effort, so I’d rather do that.
I’d just ignore such folks. Plus I have yet to meet those folks - even after 62 posts I have done!
I don’t go for Internet points only. That also fuels me to trying coming up with something of quality, but it’s also the good discussions and possibly providing something interesting to folks to read/look at and to make them even think about stuff that gets me going 😄 Kicking in some extra activity in these communities!
But the same can be achieved with comments - you’re right with that one.
Making a post can require more thinking and effort, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I have spent more effort on a comment than on making a post!
The feel and interaction is different with a post and a comment. A post can wake up all sorts of commenting and a post is “more visible” to people who sees it as they scroll away. Comments of course also provide activity within a post/community, may generally be less visible to more people (you have to click a post open to see comments) and they can also gain all the off-topic commentary on them - just like in a post.
Not saying that commenting is worse than creating a whole post. Both have their reasons to exist and their places to be used.
If the community is too small, there’s little to no response to what I want to say.
Just like getting buried in too many similar comments doesn’t make an interaction, being the only comment with no reply or making a post with no discussion underneath also doesn’t make an interaction.
Because I prefer to create. I like to make YouTube videos, downloadable audio clips of my journaling, etc.
This is going into a rant but it will come back to the point.
There is a visceral hatred for small creators for some reason and there almost always has been since 2000ish. It always comes with this sinister idea that you’re only doing it to make money. Meanwhile anybody that has made art/content realizes making it large is like getting into a professional sports team - we can all play for the love and impossible dream but we’re never going to make a penny, in fact it’s going to cost us far more to create the content than we will ever see returned.
If you are tiny and you post your own efforts, apparently you’re spamming your channel for that fat payday. My channel with 800 subscribers, daily videos, and a million views didn’t pay for my microphone.
But if you’re a big site that probably doesn’t need the exposure as much as the smaller would appreciate, that’s fine for people to post.
We’re living in the beginning of the post-social media world, I lived in the BBS days so I’ve seen a lot. I really think it’s time to intentionally go back to small forums, small content creators, hobbyists, and fuck the big boys already. They have carried their nonsense as far as they can go and it’s just not going to work anymore especially with the rise of AI trash content.
But to the answer the question, it’s disheartening, and a bit of a waste of time to try to post your own content and that’s all I’m really interested in posting. It’s too exhausting being beaten down continually and criticized just for wanting to add something to the world and share.
I used to try posting stuff but it never got much engagement, I really just don’t get how this shit works. These days I only occasionally comment, and even then it’s only when I’m already just trying to waste time.
If you get a million views in YouTube, can you gain a small income through that?
Can you partner up with other names/creators to raise awareness/visibility to your own name/work?
Sometimes you need to keep standing your ground. Explain how it is and if they don’t believe you, ignore them.
Do you wish to get money? Is this a hobby?
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I think it depends how a post you create is doing. What the community you choose is, what is its activity, what kind is your post, what materials you use (text, images etc)…
To my knowledge (of one month), it’s easier to get any sort of engagement (being it likes or comments) from one cute or sad comic image than from sincere, deeper discussion of whatever topic.
We are fighting against people’s time. How should they use it?
And then again - we use these services for different purposes. Some of us jump in for a quick lolz off pictures, while others delve for hours in all sorts of peculiar discussions.
(I’m not so much of a content creator - at least when it comes to something else than text. But I try to do my part in all sorts of communities that interest me to kick some engagement around this place 💓
I’d like to see this thing taking off and getting at least some of the activity what Reddit gets)
I get my comics on getcomisc.org or Soulseek. The first one has good sources and a few collections, although nothing I’d call an actual “bulk”. With Soulseek you can download the batches of your choice.
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