Defederation blocks communication both ways, I believe.

OnShape is my go-to. It’s what I taught my students when I was a TA for an introductory engineering class at college, and they could pick it up in about a day.

Can do just about anything a “professional” cad suite does, but it’s free, works in a browser, and is generally so much better designed so you don’t have to fight against the UI to get anything done.

You were into Warhammer at age 4? Man, I couldn’t even read.

The way I picture this is by letting communities have some sort of “partner communities” listing. If mods of games@xyz decide they like the content of games@abc, and gaming@123, they add those communities as “partners” (perhaps those communities have to accept which in turn adds games@abc as their partner). Then, when any user subscribes to one partnered community, they also become subscribed by proxy to the others, and begin to see posts from all 3.

This helps smaller communities piggyback on the success of willing larger communities and gain a bit of visibility as well, which should encourage growth of each partner so smaller ones don’t just die out.

Communities can “unpartner” at any time, in which case users would only remain subscribed to the one they originally selected. And of course, users could explicitly block any of the partnered communities if they don’t want to see the whole set.

Seconding this. V2 has been awesome for me, but I had to add a bltouch to get consistently good results without fiddling with leveling all the time. Now, V2 gives me flawless prints with minimal tinkering.

Neo adds this by default, plus a few other upgrades other people are mentioning, that I think make it perfect for a newbie who just wants to start printing.

V2 is “the same machine” but you would need to buy the upgrades separately (bltouch is really the only one you “need”). Good if you want to spend a little more time getting to know the machine and putting it together. Gives a good feel for how the machine works and is a good experience on its own if you want to get deeper into the hobby.

Others can correct me if I’m wrong, but PLA the plastic itself is food safe. As in, you can put it in your mouth and it’s fine. The issue comes from the 3d printing process which tends to create small pockets and porous surfaces where microbes can hide and grow once it gets wet, kind of like a sponge. So you could print a single-use fork and eat with it, but don’t reuse it later.

I think an insert for cutlery would be fine since you aren’t going to be getting it wet or putting it in contact with your mouth or food.

Why plastic washers instead of springs? Is the bed sagging due to the washers deforming with heat?

Wait so what was the trick to save time and filament? Just rotating the part to use fewer supports?

I know this is answer is overdone at this point, but a pretty good chunk of Brandon Sanderson’s books are this.

Wait, Gormenghast has Science fiction? When does that show up? I only read the first book so far and don’t remember a lot.

I’m mostly looking for advice working with Anki. The LearnJapanese subreddit seemed to have quite a bit of expertise setting up unique Anki stuff but that’s kind of a niche within a niche.

I’ll see if those other communities have any input first. Thanks!

Hi there! I’m looking for a place to get advice for studying Japanese, and this is the only community that comes up for me. I understand that’s not the point of this place, but you seem to know about “other communities dedicated to those subjects”. Would you be willing to point me toward those?

Thank you for taking the time to answer. I hope you might be willing to clarify a bit more for me. By “window”, I meant just… having access to a remote community via an API gateway, I guess.

I was under the impression that if I try to subscribe to a remote community hosted on lemmy.world from vlemmy.net, that is simply registering the URL of that community into some local directory in my instance, not duplicating the entire community contents into vlemmy.net. And then when I view a thread in that remote community, I am just retrieving the thread data from the host server at lemmy.world straight to my browser, not loading some local duplicate of the thread from vlemmy.net. Seems like it would get out of sync quickly if we are all reading separate local copies of the original.

So based on your answer, I am still misunderstanding something. What is the purpose of all the duplication then? Is it just for local caching purposes? Does this not needlessly drive up the amount of traffic because each instance is frantically trying to keep up to date with every other instance, rather than just letting each instance handle the requests for its own communities?

Each instance would have to handle the replication and storage of the entire lemmyverse.

Do instances fully replicate and locally store remote subscribed communities? My understanding is they are still solely hosted on the original instance; subscribing just opens a window to the community by making your instance aware it exists.

Doesn’t matter what account you have, you can see communities/subreddits across anyone of them.

I’m having trouble with this part. If I want to look up threads about the latest Pokemon movie, Reddit would let me just type “Pokemon Avengers of Middle Earth” into the search bar, and I would see hundreds of results from all different subreddits that I can comment on right away.

Lemmy only seems to search my local instance, unless I first

• search on lemmy.directory
• manually subscribe to those communities so they show up on my local instance
• search again on my local instance
• finally I can comment

It’s a hassle. I would love if Lemmy included some kind of optional search mode that searches the directory instance, and then has a nice big button to subscribe to the results that are not federated (am I using that right?) with your current instance.

I understand there are growing pains, but I work in tech and I’m just barely stumbling along here. The “it’s like email” analogy starts to fall apart pretty quickly once you realize Gmail can only send messages to Outlook if you first go to Outlook and copy a special code. For every email address you want to send to. The average user is going to give up.

Am I misunderstanding how it all works? I’m hoping to learn more. Just figuring out how to comment on this remote thread from my instance took forever, and I don’t necessarily want to be subscribed here, but it seems to be required to make even a single comment. I am probably doing something wrong.

Trying to figure out Lemmy. It’s not easy…

Also, replying to users who keep requesting access to our blacked out sub.