3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or !functionalprint@fedia.io
There are CAD communities available at: !cad@lemmy.world or !freecad@lemmy.ml
Rules
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No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
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Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
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No porn (NSFW prints are acceptable but must be marked NSFW)
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No Ads / Spamming / Guerrilla Marketing
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Do not create links to reddit
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If you see an issue please flag it
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No guns
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No injury gore posts
If you need an easy way to host pictures, https://catbox.moe/ may be an option. Be ethical about what you post and donate if you are able or use this a lot. It is just an individual hosting content, not a company. The image embedding syntax for Lemmy is 
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Stratasys and Ultimaker already killed it.
Oh come on now, that's a defeatist attitude!
There's always scope to further extract value for shareholders!
Yeah it has been dogshit for years which is why Printables and Makerworld are so popular.
Printables added incentives. They've gamified it, there's badges and ranks and you can earn Prusa Points to redeem for filament or, if you collect enough, 3D printers! They have a marketplace where you can sell your STLs for actual money.
It's also full of slop. They ran a "Valentine's Day" contest, so it became impossible to browse through pages and pages of red benchies with hearts added or flexi dragons with hearts added or any other stereotypical 3D printer shit printed in red with hearts added. Scroll past that, through the 67 memes and anime titties and you hit the thick layer of random geometric shapes.
It feels like printables has leaned heavily in to the subscription-model with many users now locking content behind subscriptions to their profile. It sucks that prusa/printables are willingly participating in enshittification by implementing such a feature.