Post by @thevhswizard@retro.pizza

2026-09-24 13:54 UTC

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

Replies (4)

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net 2026-09-24 14:09

@thevhswizard@retro.pizza "Alzo is your free home for fun on the web!" "Alzo is now part of the Blorp network." "Alzo is now Crung!" "Crung! is shutting down."

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@TerryHancock@realsocial.life 2026-09-24 15:24

@thevhswizard@retro.pizza Obviously the odds of somebody spinning up a new Fedi platform in real time are low. But what exactly is a "webcomics platform", technically? We already have Pixelfed and some other federated image-sharing platforms, so could one simply use those? What would be lacking?

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@Catwoman69y2k@meow.social 2026-09-24 14:02

@thevhswizard@retro.pizza Ah dang it...Tapas seemed like it had potential. Id be interested in knowing/connecting up with the entities who are trying to roll up a solution. Im mostly in the design and website css portion of things.

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@diazona@techhub.social 2026-09-24 16:01

@thevhswizard@retro.pizza FWIW I think the biggest obstacle here is finding someone with a lot of time to spare, not so much about connecting with the Fediverse "movers and shakers". Creating a new software platform like this is a huge amount of work, on the order of many weeks' worth of a full time job for one person, and there probably aren't many people in a position to do that without getting paid accordingly. Good luck though, I hope you find something....

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