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Well there goes the last social site I was engaged with, other than this one. I just don't get it when a business decides to declare war in its users. I'll miss

Well there goes the last social site I was engaged with, other than this one. I just don't get it when a business decides to declare war in its users. I'll miss the 3D printing subreddit, oh well.

marcosdumay 3y ago
Since the redesign they shifted their focus on images, and well, I don't have any hobby best communicated by images. So, lately I have been only looking at the joke subs. I unsubscribed from the 3D printing sub a while ago, because the good stuff didn't get upvotes, because they were not images, so nothing good would make into my home page.
- greesil 3y ago
  Ooh what's the good stuff? Serious question. The latest cool thing I discovered was on youtube of all places on the topic of conical slicing. https://youtu.be/1i-1TEdByZY https://youtu.be/1i-1TEdByZY
  - cityofdelusion 3y ago
    YouTube and Discord are both pretty great for actually interesting 3d printing content. I got off Reddit for it long ago.
    - moffkalast 3y ago
      I wonder if some kind of discord server aggregator will become a thing soon, something one can add their server and invite link to so people know it exists. That plus a forum thread only setup might make it a viable replacement for a bit.
      - r1chard007 3y ago
        Already exists. https://disboard.org https://disboard.org
        moffkalast 3y ago
        Neat!
  - marcosdumay 3y ago
    IMO, the cool stuff was things like somebody coming with a question like "oh, what is the best way to add a filament spooler on a Prussa i3?" and an endless discussion of the current possibilities with pros and cons appearing on the comments. Today, the closest you could ever get is somebody posting a picture of the support they made for their spooler, and people talking about this one design. What is much worse.
- KennyBlanken 3y ago
  So many of the subs I used to follow or would use for reference have become a dumpster fire of consumeristic box shots. pcmasterrace is basically just "check out this pile of boxes of expensive stuff." The home server / selfhosted subreddits are endless pictures of a wifi router, 2-bay NAS, and a small form factor PC sitting on a shelf (and in the case of the selfhosted subreddit, also screenshots of people's web dashboards for their home server which is almost entirely torrenting / media related.) My local area subreddit is almost entirely photos of scenery, with little in the way of anything of substance like news or politics.
  - greesil 3y ago
    That is r/bayarea, but the bay area subreddit has more crime "coverage" more reminiscent of my local nextdoor.

Well there goes the last social site I was engaged with, other than this one. I just don't get it when a business decides to declare war in its users. I'll miss the 3D printing subreddit, oh well.

marcosdumay 3y ago

Since the redesign they shifted their focus on images, and well, I don't have any hobby best communicated by images. So, lately I have been only looking at the joke subs. I unsubscribed from the 3D printing sub a while ago, because the good stuff didn't get upvotes, because they were not images, so nothing good would make into my home page.

greesil 3y ago
Ooh what's the good stuff? Serious question. The latest cool thing I discovered was on youtube of all places on the topic of conical slicing. https://youtu.be/1i-1TEdByZY https://youtu.be/1i-1TEdByZY
- cityofdelusion 3y ago
  YouTube and Discord are both pretty great for actually interesting 3d printing content. I got off Reddit for it long ago.
  - moffkalast 3y ago
    I wonder if some kind of discord server aggregator will become a thing soon, something one can add their server and invite link to so people know it exists. That plus a forum thread only setup might make it a viable replacement for a bit.
    - r1chard007 3y ago
      Already exists. https://disboard.org https://disboard.org
      - moffkalast 3y ago
        Neat!
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  IMO, the cool stuff was things like somebody coming with a question like "oh, what is the best way to add a filament spooler on a Prussa i3?" and an endless discussion of the current possibilities with pros and cons appearing on the comments. Today, the closest you could ever get is somebody posting a picture of the support they made for their spooler, and people talking about this one design. What is much worse.
KennyBlanken 3y ago
So many of the subs I used to follow or would use for reference have become a dumpster fire of consumeristic box shots. pcmasterrace is basically just "check out this pile of boxes of expensive stuff." The home server / selfhosted subreddits are endless pictures of a wifi router, 2-bay NAS, and a small form factor PC sitting on a shelf (and in the case of the selfhosted subreddit, also screenshots of people's web dashboards for their home server which is almost entirely torrenting / media related.) My local area subreddit is almost entirely photos of scenery, with little in the way of anything of substance like news or politics.
- greesil 3y ago
  That is r/bayarea, but the bay area subreddit has more crime "coverage" more reminiscent of my local nextdoor.