With the recent adquisition what do you think will happen?
Well they’re not a charity, so my bet is on enshittification of some sort under the guise of “improving the experience for makers and users”.
Stratasys and Ultimaker already killed it.
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.
Is it finally time for ManyFold, our very own Fediverse 3d object repository, to shine? Look, you can tag/follow/etc an object right from here, like this one: @w9b6w6sxkxkr@3dprint.social
I got an error when I clicked that @ link?
Aww, i guess it’s atill kinda janky unfortunately… Works in theory at least! And works on my client?
What is it supposed to show? I’m using a Chrome web browser.
It depends a bit on what kind of media the platform you’re viewing it from is capable of displaying. From Piefed all I see is a small snippet of information about what the object is. If any platform (other than ManyFold itself) implements a 3d viewer, it ought to let you see and rotate the object itself. Kinda like how a PeerTube video shows up on Mastodon?
Is there consensus on who would be best to migrate your “things” to? Maybe what do folks think of Printables?
I do more publishing than downloading. And I’m interested in one that’s in the spirit of FOSS. Friendly to permissive licenses. (Unfriendly to more proprietary licenses is a big plus IMO. I’m a fan of attribution and copyleft requirements. Noncommercial limitations, I’m relatively indifferent to.) Not enshittified and not likely to enshittify any time soon.
