Post by @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
Monthly report for September is out!
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1180/monthly-production-report-for-september-2026
I'm sharing making-of and behind-the-scenes stories, unpublished visuals, and news about all my background projects. I also share (as usual, without paywall) high-resolution images, timelapses, brushes, layered files, tutorials, hardware reviews and more on my websites.
Thank you for all the comments and your amazing support!
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@davidrevoy congrats on the re-marriage! nice that you got to properly celebrate ^^
@davidrevoy It's always very fun to read through these and see all of the behind the scenes of the circumstances the comics were made in!
And congrats on the remarriage, sounds like a lot of fun to do that after such a long time 
@davidrevoy congratulations to you and Alicja for your wedding anniversary celebration. I wish you both many more years of happiness and togetherness. Half the problems in life are solved when you have your favourite person with you on the journey
I couldn't post my monthly update on the Facebook page because apparently, now I can post only 2 external links per month...
Monetizing external links, what a shame, Meta. 
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org haaaaa, two links a month?! Bloody hell. 🤣
Predicting a future of Facebook with www[dot]website[dot]com links scattered around it 🤣
@paul
Which are rather trivially xxx-ed out. If the landlord desires to block that behaviour.
@davidrevoy
@fabiscafe I think if I do a link like that, it will be shadow ban.
My regular external links were already shadowban anyway... they keep only the comics.
I'll find something to communicate to my followers (around 16K on it)
@davidrevoy
> I think if I do a link like that, it will be shadow ban.
Then do a comic with a farewell, use ai-fenced font in the bubbles, and tell the story of some metaeuthanized soul that goes into the datacenter inferno to swap bits in the authenticators so villains can access their golem anymore, than set those golem to find a way to destroy all who pushed it to the misery of working agains human artists...
@davidrevoy @fabiscafe when i was on facebook (just regular user account), i made a post like that and that post was removed almost immediately 🤣
I am pulling my NeoFinder product page from Facebook because of this garbage.
Good thing, NeoFinder already has a nice Fediverse page, which is free, doesn't spy on you, doesn't require an account, doesn't finance nazis and other questionable behavior.
Time to leave that brown hellhole.
I just wonder if meta has financial problems causing this idiotic idea?
@grum999 😆
Unfortunately, yes. And far beyond other social media (src https://duckduckgo.com/?q=social+media+by+number+of+users+2025&iar=images&t=ffab )
@davidrevoy
What is "Meta"?
Sounds like this one kind of drug ...
(Fun Fact: The company itself was figure out, their system is behaving as like a drug to people, the users, for years ... and them was not doing anything against.)
All of their crap not enters my sourrounding.
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram ... nope!
@schrotthaufen @frumble It is also my feeling when a company risks an enshitification move like that onto content creators.
@davidrevoy
I think you don't understand enshitification. It's more a sign of look we are still number one in social media, let's convert some of this to money.
@schrotthaufen @frumble
@drgeo I can't. I could with Twitter (and before Elon took it) because it was only "professional relationship" and I knew our professional bubble of FLOSS digital painting was already very active here on the Fediverse.
But on Facebook, it's old aunt, cousins, fans I met at signing session, that always leave a nice comments and follow weekly, 16K in total.
Even if Facebook act like a bandit, if I leave, they'll shadow ban my message of leaving, and I'll get blamed by the audience for doing it.
@hacknorris It's complex for user to scan the QR code, if this one appears on the screen of the device they use to scan it. I say that, because according to the built in analytics, most of my Facebook audience check their timeline on smartphones. So, I'm not sure if they can have the possibility to do that, that's sad.
@davidrevoy there are ways to open links from qr codes without camera app. you can just do a screenshot and paste into some site which are tons...
@davidrevoy this is so... deeply, deeply... ten years ago, this picture would have looked like a joke or a prediction of an awful future for the internet.
aaaaaaand
@davidrevoy are any of your readers still there though? :-)
@isagalaev A lot, sadly (~16K), and people I personally care, like very old friends, family nephew or nieces, an old person that used to be a friend of the parent of my wife before they passed away; they always interact under the comics, leave a little hello. Cutting the Facebook page would result cutting a bridge and presence in those fragiles relations...
@davidrevoy yes… My question was snarky, but I totally feel what you're saying. I have a few of such connections myself. And those are usually people who aren't going to switch online platforms.
I really hate how Facebook took so many of our relations hostage.
How can you even tell? The mere favs counts can be faked. Probably is too, for some sinister psychology experiment.
I am so, so glad that the Fediverse got created.
@anlomedad @isagalaev You can tell they are still plenty of real person watching their timelines by meeting them IRL.
I have plenty of feedback eg. from far away family who came at my wedding explained in the monthly report and who engaged discussion about my recent comics, saying they followed them on Fb, or when I do signing session, and you meet many amazing persons saying with shyness they follow on Facebook.
Yes, the way the post are shown, the stats can all be faked, but this, not much.
@davidrevoy They have to fund "muse" somehow and slopmachines arent getting any more profitable. On a more serious note, I didn't think there was any room to enshitify facebook even more, guess I was wrong
@skobkin I think I heard some creators who got ban for promoting other platforms. eg. Fediverse on Instagram, if I remember. I'll investigate those stories before trying.
honestly if that's how they're gonna roll I hope there is a mass exodus
@davidrevoy I am at awe how easily they come up with new ways to squeeze out money of people. I'd never would have thought about limiting the number of ext. links. Wow! 
@rantanlan For the "network effect", with 3 Billions of active users they are still the number 1 network. (And I'm sad about it, I spent a big part from 2010 to recently to work for a non-profit that tried to inform and educate about the issues with the GAFAM.)
@davidrevoy I'm sorry, was more of a rhetorical question. If your business depend on it or if it's the way it worked for you and provided some income... I know it is no easy choice. For me, who never had an account or dependencys it's easy to write.
@davidrevoy It's jarring that the corporation who are the most desperate to squeeze money from people are the most financially fortunate.
@davidrevoy je suis bien content d'avoir supprimé mon compte
De toutes façons, à la fin, j'avais 10 posts de pubs pour peut être un post d'un truc ou j'étais abonné ><
@davidrevoy I couldn't *give away* three functional bikes on my local freecycle group because Facebook decided I needed to use a passkey from now on and their passkey setup is totally borked.
But on the upside I guess I'll never have to deal with Facebook ever again for the rest of my life.
@faoluin A part of my supporters follows it this way. Also a long network effect on it (group of friends, family, etc...) and many people I know IRL who follow me on it. Real life example: I went to the doctor on Friday, he follows me on Fb and had a smile and liked to comment my recent episodes.
Leaving silently (because I can't link about the reason, shadowban system, and no external link allowed) would backfire to me socially more than I can afford. But I'm thinking about a strategy to leave.
@ToonLink yeah... including in the comments.
The two links I already posted were the "speedpainting links" part of the MiniFantasyTheater episode posts. I guess I'll have to stop posting the timelapse on Fb.
@davidrevoy wow that's crazy.
They really don't want people using websites that they can't scrape data from lol
@stairjoke Don't worry, everything is all set since a long time (I'm into activism against GAFAM since a long time, almost as soon as they appeared in my region of the world ~2010).
I have probably 30x the audience via RSS (according the server log) than Facebook followers. But I know ~30 poeples personally IRL that follows the FB page and are captive of it for many reasons (family/school/work).
Yep.
Meta just decided to kill its own business with that 2 links/month scheme.
Saw an email by a guy who sells FB ads. The fees Meta is asking for a tiny bit more reach are insane, as well.
Enshittification end stage.
@davidrevoy I haven’t used Facebook in ages. But somehow this doesn’t surprise me.
I kinda feel the that social networks” are dead and we all should go back to the independant forums, personal blogs and the like … you know, like web was intended to be 🤷
@ertai42 I already did multiple time in the past, but the post were immediately shadowban. I had also feedback that this type of promotion to move away is now is a motive of ban on Meta platforms.
I'm thinking about a special MiniFantasyTheater footer on the last panel for Facebook. Something I'll have to code/automate.
@davidrevoy facebook? 😂😂😂 That prehistoric platform that supports fascism? Why on earth would you still want to be part of it?
@AccordingtoWouter Because of an historical presence since 2010, 16K (nice persons) followers that I often meet IRL and are publishing nice comments. There is a little vibrant P&C community over there, that have their dissonance about using Facebook/Messenger, because they have to: for staying in contact with their family, their co-workers, the group of the parents for their child at school, well, a social life.
Same for me, it would cut bridges with family member if I wasn't on it.
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org just another proof that fediverse are better that most other (A)-social platforms 
@spirillen Oh yes! Far better.
But I think famous persons, politicians, brands are not coming around here (or still an exception when they do) because there is not a "pay to win" system in place here, so they can't buy their success. 😆
@pax0707 Not really, it was a workaround for the previous enshitification in place since ~2020:
The link in the 1st comment permited to avoid the post to be shadowban because it contained an external link. But now, this rule with the count also includes the comments. So, I can't even link to a previous episode, or a tutorial to help, or my brushes, etc when I have Krita questions in the comments. I checked: I spent my first two links in Oct, only by linking to the timelapse in the 1st comment...
@jolle Yep, I know. I already explained the many reasons on other comments here that keep me posting on this page.
@davidrevoy I think they've realized that anyone who's still on Facebook at this point is completely trapped.
@davidrevoy im so frustrated by this lately (im so mad and fed up but my online and irl relations are there either on whatsapp, ig, fb, messenger) and the upcoming web crawling ToS update.
will you do something about it? can your personal website avoid meta bot crawl?
i just deleted website links from my fb, but not sure if what they meant by "associated sites" is any links I've ever post in even comments and chats
@lazcht Hey, so I had discussions with friends this week-end to clarify my mind, and in the end, I'll keep the Facebook page because it is low time budget to maintain, and family/friends/audience on it, so it is still a + for me and them.
I'll spend my 2 external links on "monthly update" on my blog and personal promotion (linktree in my profile, patronage) .
And I'll insert on my monthly report a message for my audience following me from Meta products.
1/2
@davidrevoy They are doubling down on keeping everyone in the walled garden unless you wish to pay the price. We are all better off without Meta.
Congratulations on the remarriage.
And thank you for the fun and beautiful artwork you share.
And the writing, too.
It us appreciated and enjoyed.
@davidrevoy D'awww... Congratulations on your re-wedding, and your happy marriage and long friendship! I hope it goes on for many more years.
That church is a real treasure! It's beautiful, with the added enchantment of something skeletal and semi-ruined without being so. That it survived the war is incredible; I know so many historic buildings were lost.
Our oldest buildings seem to be churches about that age. Most of our other buildings weren't built to last, so the survivors are special.
@ToonLink Thank you! 💜 Oh yes, I hope we'll be healthy and motivated in 10 years to do it again, with the same persons around!
Yes, the place was really special!
@davidrevoy Est-ce que poster un strip avec un lien court en guise d'élément décoratif (genre le fronton d'un pub ou qqch comme ça) ça pourrait le faire ? Mais en postant le strip d'un bloc et pas en 4 images, pour éviter que la zone du lien ne représente un plus gros pourcentage de l'image et soit plus facilement spotté par les perroquets qui scrutent les images. Et par ex, au bout du lien, l'explication des soucis actuels avec la plateforme, et pour ceux qui ne se sentent pas de venir ici, peut-être une newsletter par email ? C'est un peu à l'ancienne, mais ça fonctionne très bien et là au moins pas de shadowban machin chose, même chez ceux qui sont chez gmail & co.
En bonus, en fonction de l'hébergement de la page explicative, tu peux aussi faire un ban de toutes les plages ip connues de meta pour bloquer l'analyse du contenu du lien ;) Ça ne sera valide qu'un temps, mais étant donné l’espérance de vue des posts chez meta...
@Gynux Ca pourrait le faire. Je vais m'intéresser aussi aux typographies qui résistent à la reconnaissance de texte dans les images, et donc l'algorithme.
En tout cas, même marquer "suivre le lien dans ma bio" (même pas une URL) est comptabilisé par le système comme une tentative de lien externe dans le décompte. J'ai tenté en alternative pour partager mon "monthly report".
C'est dystopique ce qui se passe...
