I don't know if there is enough interest, but is it possible to get a maker community created? Some things like 3d printing don't always quite fit into DIY or Creative.

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[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think https://beehaw.org/c/diy would fit "Maker" items, certainly. Please try your posts there and let's see how it is received.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds good!

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's !makerstuff@lemmy.world with 400 subscribers, and not much action. But if you start adding more posts, maybe others will too.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Beehaw is defederated with Lemmy.world, so that is not an option

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, bummer.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Most of us here want to remain defederated with them, so NBD

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I am new on Beehaw I forgot we were defederated with lemmy.world. Probably due to the size of lemmy.world making it harder to moderate I am guessing.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That and their wide open sign ups leading to a lot of people just being terrible.

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah a large instance with open sign ups would be a lot harder to moderate. I have not been on .world for a while though from memory it was mostly fine with the occasional troublemaker. Though most of the bad actors were coming from the fascist instances like Lemmygrad, .ml, hexbear etc. Though we are defederated from them as well which is nice not having to put up with them.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I understand, and it's a great thing that we all can decide our experience. About the maker community, I guess the other option is to just create it and see what happens. If beehaw is defederated with many other instances, it would limit potential spread (again, this might be a desired outcome), but maybe it would fit in here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/communities or a similar instance?
I would be interested in a maker community, right now I'm subscribed to various niche ones like lasercutting, microcontroller, etc.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

Beehaw admins have to make communities here, which is partly why I posted here. Also partly to gauge interest. And yeah, I don't think there are enough users for a bunch of niche communities, but one maker community that covers them all might work