I run the posting bot.

GoComics gave me a hard time for a bit with constant breaking changes every few days. But it's been stable for a while now.

That said, I want to point out that while posts on the fediverse are decentralized, images are not.

Instances can re-host post media, but it's only a temporarily cached thumbnail, or temporary proxied image. Instances do not re-host every piece of media on the fediverse, rather, while the post metadata is duplicated, the media url in the post, even as it federates to other instaces, always points to the original posters home instances image-rs server. Which is where every person opening the post url will load it from.

A DMCA takedown request would absolutely be enforcable.

I say screw corporations. Precisely that was what Bill Watterson gently protested against.

So in his spirit, I think we should let them have it on their bum - we do what we want. When a law is unreasonable, it is time to decide for ourselves.

Let the comics stay here and don't attract too much attention, but when they try to take it down here too, make a loud, big fat stink about it to sympathetic people (while readying another place).

It will also make our image stronger, as everyone likes Calvin and Hobbes, and getting those taken down by that guy will result in him getting a big side eye.

Do we tell the Redditors to come here?