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Normalize including links with comics (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by erlend_sh@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 :).

[-] erlend_sh@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years 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 🥰