Snowflake Challenge Day 5: Moar Internets!

[rokhal]

Skipping a couple days here.

Okay. Here we go:


Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

1. Read Comics Online.to   This is where you can read most of the comic books ever published by major companies for free. For now. Until someone shuts it down. Comic book fans, as part of their fannish activity, publish "scans" (pirated copies--now mostly digital) of comics in this massive and rapidly expanding database for anyone to read. The reason being, most comics suck. And it takes years of back-issues to understand half of what is going on. And if no one can access those back-issues without spending hundreds of dollars on hack-written crap, no one will care about comics within two decades. Is it legal? I doubt it. Ethical? Mmmmmaybe probably fine. "Steal what you need, buy what you like" as the saying goes.
2. The Distributed Fandom discord. I don't know the etiquette on plugging Discord servers, but on Distributed Fandom, a dozen Fandom Olds with programming experience have congregated to hopefully devise a new, unquashable, Federated fandom paradigm. "Forking" "Hubzilla" for use with "torrent-based video hosting". Basically, if your content is hosted on a dozen different volunteer-owned servers that all talk to each-other, or better yet, if you own the server, no one can delete you for TOS violations.
3. 15MinuteFics on Pillowfort. Prompts go up on a regular basis, hidden behind a read-more. You get a fresh posting window up. Sit down with fifteen minutes free. Click the read-more, see the prompt, panic for thirty seconds, and then start writing. When your fifteen minutes are up, fix your typos and post. No matter how blocked you are, you're done in fifteen minutes! It's a very refreshing and stimulating mix of "ticking deadline"/"low pressure".