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Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Thanks

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On Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:19:06 -0700, Daniel wrote:

Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Even if you find such a group, will it likely to be carrying much traffic?
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 21:50:33 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Even if you find such a group, will it likely to be carrying much
traffic?

Was that the question?
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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes:

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 21:50:33 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Even if you find such a group, will it likely to be carrying much
traffic?

Was that the question?

I don't have any yet. Just getting started on the hobby and wanted to
peruse the jabber. Is this a good forum for it?

D
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On 10/9/25 16:20, Daniel wrote:

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes:

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 21:50:33 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Even if you find such a group, will it likely to be carrying much
traffic?

Was that the question?

I don't have any yet. Just getting started on the hobby and wanted to
peruse the jabber. Is this a good forum for it?

D

no
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Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> wrote in news:10c9u2r$3o9sv$1@dont- email.me:

On 10/9/25 16:20, Daniel wrote:

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes:

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 21:50:33 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Even if you find such a group, will it likely to be carrying much
traffic?

Was that the question?

I don't have any yet. Just getting started on the hobby and wanted to
peruse the jabber. Is this a good forum for it?

D

no

The free.3d.printing group was started a couple weeks back. I've not seen anything particularly useful yet. They are still a relatively small group.

If you have a particular 3D Printer perhaps that company has or can
recomend places for you to check.

There might be crafting groups where you could get ideas on things to make
or how to make them.

If you use any 3D Modeling Tools perhaps the people there could refer you
to some discussion groups.

Good luck!
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On Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:19:06 -0700, Daniel wrote:

Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Thanks

D

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ is active but it seems to be mostly 'look what I made' rather than discussing the technology. You might find something useful with a search.
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On 10 Oct 2025 05:45:31 GMT, rbowman wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ is active but it seems to be mostly 'look what I made' rather than discussing the technology. You might find something useful with a search.

Reddit is toxic as hell. The whole upvoting/downvoting is absurd. It
regularly happens that people upvote a comment that is wrong, even after
other users state that it is wrong. And then you've got the Karma thing
and all the bots. Some time ago I came across a website that stated that
50% of the messages on Reddit are bots. (Dead Internet is here.)

That being said: you can always try. You don't need an account to get
access to (most) subreddits.
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

On Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:19:06 -0700, Daniel wrote:

Can someone recommend a good newsgroup that discusses 3D printing?

Thanks

D

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ is active but it seems to be mostly 'look what I made' rather than discussing the technology. You might find something useful with a search.

Yeah, I am already a member of a few maker forums and thingiverse. I
avoid reddit like the plague, especially since the majority of its
traffic is bot activity.

I just hoped to find a community on usenet. There are some adjacent
communities that discuss 3d printing to some degree but not in
general.

It was worth a look. It's a closed matter from my point of view.

D
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:39:52 +0200, s|b wrote:

Reddit is toxic as hell. The whole upvoting/downvoting is absurd. It regularly happens that people upvote a comment that is wrong, even after other users state that it is wrong. And then you've got the Karma thing
and all the bots. Some time ago I came across a website that stated that
50% of the messages on Reddit are bots. (Dead Internet is here.)

I suspect that depends on the sub. It's no different than usenet. alt.home.repair is a wasteland that might as well be a subset of alt.fan.rush.limbaugh. The demise of google groups did little to improve
it. alt.survival would seem to be as susceptible but never was as bad. Why
did a.h.r became a troll farm and not others?

Over the last decades it's been whack-a-mole trying to find where the
serious discussions move to. Forums come and go. Mailing lists seem to be
as much a dying thing as usenet. I never got into IRC as there were no channels I found interesting.

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:23:50 -0700, Daniel wrote:

I just hoped to find a community on usenet. There are some adjacent communities that discuss 3d printing to some degree but not in
general.

The natural catch-all group, for categories that donrCOt fit elsewhere,
would be comp.misc.
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:39:52 +0200, s|b wrote:

Reddit is toxic as hell. The whole upvoting/downvoting is absurd. It
regularly happens that people upvote a comment that is wrong, even after
other users state that it is wrong. And then you've got the Karma thing
and all the bots. Some time ago I came across a website that stated that
50% of the messages on Reddit are bots. (Dead Internet is here.)

I suspect that depends on the sub. It's no different than usenet. alt.home.repair is a wasteland that might as well be a subset of alt.fan.rush.limbaugh. The demise of google groups did little to improve
it. alt.survival would seem to be as susceptible but never was as bad. Why did a.h.r became a troll farm and not others?

Over the last decades it's been whack-a-mole trying to find where the serious discussions move to. Forums come and go. Mailing lists seem to be
as much a dying thing as usenet. I never got into IRC as there were no channels I found interesting.

Which IRC server did you use?
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:13:35 -0700, Daniel wrote:

Which IRC server did you use?

On good days I might remember what I had for breakfast the day before. My brief fling at IRC was probably 25 years ago. Not a clue.

fwiw konversation connects to libera by default. #3Dprinting appears to
be maintaining radio silence. 6552 channels and nothing on to paraphrase
the Springsteen song. I suppose some of them must be active.

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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:13:35 -0700, Daniel wrote:

Which IRC server did you use?

On good days I might remember what I had for breakfast the day before. My brief fling at IRC was probably 25 years ago. Not a clue.

fwiw konversation connects to libera by default. #3Dprinting appears to
be maintaining radio silence. 6552 channels and nothing on to paraphrase the Springsteen song. I suppose some of them must be active.

Yeah people don't tend to have conversations unless someone has a
question. I'm often idle for days. And Ihave threads with people that go
back years.

libera is a spinoff of freenode.

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On 2025-10-11, Daniel wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:13:35 -0700, Daniel wrote:

Which IRC server did you use?

On good days I might remember what I had for breakfast the day before. My >> brief fling at IRC was probably 25 years ago. Not a clue.

fwiw konversation connects to libera by default. #3Dprinting appears to >> be maintaining radio silence. 6552 channels and nothing on to paraphrase >> the Springsteen song. I suppose some of them must be active.

Yeah people don't tend to have conversations unless someone has a
question. I'm often idle for days. And Ihave threads with people that go
back years.

libera is a spinoff of freenode.

And it's too recent for that, but if we're talking about defaults, maybe
it was indeed Freenode, which nowadays is pretty much libera[.chat] in
spirit, I don't even know whether Freenode still exists all these years
since the... well, enshittification with the takeover.

Lee didn't just do a network takeover, IIRC he ditched the whole
services and channels database, imposed rules that allowed Trump-like retaliation and channel takeovers on grounds of "that's unallowed
advertising" if anyone dared mention another IRC network; I think his
freenode also started mandating SASL soon after the takeover. I'm not
even sure if nowadays accounts can be registered over IRC without going
to some website first. (Nor do I want to check.)

Besides the way the takeover unfolded, this person also seemed to insist
on some... nonsense, claiming that some country was "the oldest nation
in the world since 1392" [1]. While I don't have a lot of information
memorized on world history, I simply note that Portugal was established
over two centuries before that...

Thankfully, libera.chat was quickly created and a lot of projects moved
either to Libera or to OFTC. (In fact, the situation was bad enough and deteriorated so quickly that several projects put out announcements that
their support venues had changed. And, for example, Gentoo held an
emergency council meeting [2].)

For other names of international networks, there's for example also
IRCnet and Eris-Free NETwork.

[1] This claim can still be seen in https://old.freenode.net/
[2] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20210523-summary.txt
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On 2025-10-10, s|b wrote:

On 10 Oct 2025 05:45:31 GMT, rbowman wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/ is active but it seems to be mostly >> 'look what I made' rather than discussing the technology. You might find
something useful with a search.

Reddit is toxic as hell. The whole upvoting/downvoting is absurd. It regularly happens that people upvote a comment that is wrong, even after other users state that it is wrong. And then you've got the Karma thing
and all the bots. Some time ago I came across a website that stated that
50% of the messages on Reddit are bots. (Dead Internet is here.)

That being said: you can always try. You don't need an account to get
access to (most) subreddits.

The idea of votes and ranking content by votes to me can destroy a
conversation medium and promote the hiding of content in a way similar
to "algorithmic social media". Although some of these vote-based sites
probably have ways to display by chronological order, and so it probably
isn't a barrier in itself.

But, overall, its weakest spot is the interface. To me, Netnews
wins. Especially regarding how flexible it is, compared to a website
which ends up being mostly a one-size-fits-all UI endeavour (although
at least old.reddit.com still exists...).

These days it feels like this flexibility of working on top of open
protocols without much restrictions on the client software is way too
easily overlooked. See for example IRC, which enables text-based
interfaces that can run on terminals and terminal emulators, graphical text-centered interfaces (HexChat, ChatZilla), some level of integration
with IM interfaces (such as Pidgin n|-e Gaim), bridges with other similar
media (e.g. XMPP) and also a comic strip interface (Microsoft Comic
Chat).
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