I think creatives on Facebook overestimate their value to an extent, I use Facebook to see what my friends and family are doing, and because the sports I do are mostly arranged through Facebook pages.
The webcomics etc I follow are cool, but if they stopped posting I wouldn’t really miss them all that much.
I actually stopped using Facebook because they started forcing all this other shit on me. Like you said, I used it to keep in contact with friends and family. The site has made it increasingly harder to do that, to the point where now it’s 95% shit I never agreed to see. So I just stopped going there. It’s sad because it was a a great platform for friends and family.
Agree, Facebook is not the platform fot creatives, especially not comic creators.
I was a huge Webcomic fan back in the days of things like Mega Tokyo, Real Life Comics, etc., and people used to make a living hosting their own content on their own sites making their own ad revenue and merch shops. Kinda hate that social media consolidation killed all that. I actually want to catch up with Something Positive since the creator has been making podcasts appearances and reminded me he exists and seeing his site still looking the way it did a decade ago is like looking into a time machine to when the internet was better.
Sorry for the rant, webcomics have just been on my mind and your comment helped open the floodgates 😅
I use it for the same reasons as you and I also follow local news outlets and local government since Twitter went to crap. I follow a few special interest groups but political posts, probably by bots is making most of these groups unusable. I couldn’t care less about the content. I go to other platforms for that
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I think creatives on Facebook overestimate their value to an extent, I use Facebook to see what my friends and family are doing, and because the sports I do are mostly arranged through Facebook pages.
The webcomics etc I follow are cool, but if they stopped posting I wouldn’t really miss them all that much.
I actually stopped using Facebook because they started forcing all this other shit on me. Like you said, I used it to keep in contact with friends and family. The site has made it increasingly harder to do that, to the point where now it’s 95% shit I never agreed to see. So I just stopped going there. It’s sad because it was a a great platform for friends and family.
I think they eased up on that, I just didn’t log in for quite a while because it was all recommendations for meme pages.
Meta also owns Instagram. The comment in the comic would have better directed at that platform
Agree, Facebook is not the platform fot creatives, especially not comic creators.
I was a huge Webcomic fan back in the days of things like Mega Tokyo, Real Life Comics, etc., and people used to make a living hosting their own content on their own sites making their own ad revenue and merch shops. Kinda hate that social media consolidation killed all that. I actually want to catch up with Something Positive since the creator has been making podcasts appearances and reminded me he exists and seeing his site still looking the way it did a decade ago is like looking into a time machine to when the internet was better.
Sorry for the rant, webcomics have just been on my mind and your comment helped open the floodgates 😅
I use it for the same reasons as you and I also follow local news outlets and local government since Twitter went to crap. I follow a few special interest groups but political posts, probably by bots is making most of these groups unusable. I couldn’t care less about the content. I go to other platforms for that