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[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 56 points 11 months ago (2 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

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Search explainxkcd for the words in the image

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 11 months 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

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Today I learned :)