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Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse? (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 days ago by cecilkorik to c/[email protected]

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I'm just curious if anyone knows of an effort to build a federated version of something like Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, etc. I'm not really a fan of the centralized control, commercial tie-ins and profit motivations of those and similar sites, but the community of collaboration and remixing designs means they are basically indispensable for time efficient 3d printing, they're basically like the Github of 3d printing.

For me the ideal would be to have a federated alternative where users can host and share their own creations and collections, as well as rate and comment each other's designs to help improve discoverability of the best models in the community. This seems like something that would be a good fit for the ActivityPub protocol but I'm not sure if there is something like this already out there. All I could find is this old reddit post that seems to have gotten a lot of support (and good suggestions for features) in the comments but has gone nowhere as far as I can tell.

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[–] cecilkorik 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t want to have to dig through 100 communities all spread out to find things.

So don't. Hang out on Lemmy.world. You'll be fine here. It's as centralized as you can get. All you're really asking for is to deny others the ability to choose or run their own instance and still be able to talk to you, like I'm doing right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You realize a bunch of instances have blocked/defederated Lemmy.world, right? Exactly the kind of fragmentation I'd like to avoid. Literally other people chose who I can and can't talk to already.

This is a hard pass.