What do you mean by herd mentality? If you want to make contacts, that's different from running a lathe, but maybe I'm oversimplifying. I will say that people

What do you mean by herd mentality? If you want to make contacts, that's different from running a lathe, but maybe I'm oversimplifying. I will say that people at makerspaces generally want to be there, whereas people in CCs generally see it as more of a steppingstone to a decently paying job. You might get more out of one or the other, but there's no denying that makerspaces charge extortionate rates for machines that the CC provides virtually for free, if you know the prof well enough so he lets you sneak in.