Exactly this. I don’t want to have to dig through 100 communities all spread out to find things. Not everyone needs “my own” whatever. You can be centralized and public. Federation is just another buzzword like blockchain.
Comment on Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse?
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I don’t think connecting to the fediverse would give a lot of utility.
fishos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Fediverse itself is still “early phase”
There are plenty of proposal of features social web community, handled W3C organization, such as easier way to find content (if the instance want it to be public.)
There’s definitely a value of community being able toset up instance of their own 3D pirinting models.
fishos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, because everything needs to be a social web. Fuck off with that nonsense. Sometimes a database just needs to be a database. The last thing we need is more echo chambers in every damn hobby.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
There are always needs for self-hosting for everything.
I can see some education institution set up their 3D model instance, and make it federated with other entities.
The problem is content discovery, right? As I said before, people are working to fix that right now.
Social web is basically similar to early internet, where discovering new things is hard.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m not against distributed storage but treating a file catalog like it is a social platform seems like being a hammer seeing everything as a nail.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
fishos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You realize a bunch of instances have blocked/defederated Lemmy.world. exactly the kind of fragmentation I’d like to avoid.
This is a hard pass.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Federation alone would give a lot of utility. The whole point is not to be a walled garden of discrete silos. If I can post on Lemmy from Mastodon, why shouldn’t I be able to post a comment on a model?
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yeah I currently use Printables just because I trust Prusa more than the others, but at the end of the day Prusa is still a private company that could change its policies and decide to fuck over all its users or sell out to a company that does.
Thingiverse is just slow and crappy these days, Makers world defaults to locking everything down and not allowing remixes, so an open federated alternative would be great.