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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why not post a link to the actual XKCD comic and give the author the views instead of a random site?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The random site is their lemmy instance's pictrs. Randall doesn't care about reposting, and this is nicer since you don't have to leave lemmy

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

In fact he doesn’t care about reposting so much that he Creative Commons licensed his whole comic.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but the alt-text. Now I have to look up the comic page for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Search explainxkcd for the words in the image

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So much for "nicer since you don’t have to leave lemmy"

The alt texts are one of the best parts of xkcd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It turns out a lot of people (who aren't otherwise interested in xkcd but would like a relevant one in the moment) really don't care about the alt-text and titles.

I'm with you, but more often than not in the "relevant xkcd" moment, people lack interest for the alt text.

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