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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙@thevhswizard@retro.pizza (2026-09-24 22:54:49)
I don't know how to get the eyes or ears of any big #Fediverse movers or shakers, but if someone out there who is good with code wants to jump on a golden opportunity, one is presenting itself.
A couple of days ago, Tapas warned all their creators that they were going to be shutting down. If you're not familiar with it, Tapas is a webcomics platform, and basically the only decent-sized alternative to Webtoon.
If we could throw together some sort of ActivityPub-backed Webcomics platform, we could use it as a way to get a lot more people using Fediverse-adjacent technology.
I don't have the time or energy to do any of this myself, and I am not good at coding, but I have been doing webcomics since the 1990s, and have watched the rise and fall of Keenspot, Drunk Duck, Wordpress and the RSS era, and now the modern "Walmart for Webcomics" era. This is a huge opportunity to present the Fediverse as a viable alternative.
#webcomics #webtoon #tapas #artists #activitypub
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∷ccccel△♪ :asakusaSit: :sakurazaka46:@celbri@misskey.id (2026-09-28 11:21:19)
@thevhswizard@retro.pizza There's an FOSS comic platform funded on Kickstarter months ago: Comix Cleric (https://comixcleric.com/).
Fediverse community can rally to join the development and add AP support.
PS. Not fediverse, but there also web comic platform on NamiComi (https://namicomi.com/) which has flexible monetization and author fully own their works.
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Tykayn@tykayn@mastodon.cipherbliss.com (2026-10-16 21:22:21)
@celbri Comix Cleric seems an interesting project but there are no content from artists at all on it. i tried something here which is in beta with my own comics.
https://mastodon.cipherbliss.com/@tykayn/117444394403115057