[sircastor]

On my back burner for a whole has been a federated thing-sharing server. A sort of “Mastodon for 3D objects”. I haven’t taken the time to build anything because I’ve been otherwise busy, but the idea that I could host my own stuff if I was wary of someone else’s EULA is nice.

[avian]

Isn't "Mastodon for 3D objects" just a personal website that hosts .stl files? Last time I did a project that included 3D printed parts, I just attached models to a blog post.

I understand that not having models in a centralized repository brings problems with discoverability. So maybe a better project would be a search engine for 3D objects hosted on the long-tail web?

[app4soft]

> Isn't "Mastodon for 3D objects" just a personal website that hosts .stl files?

Nope.

Its more like MediaGoblin[0], but decentralized like Fediverse[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaGoblin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

[sircastor]

At the moment, that's exactly how I share my 3d Objects.

The magic of Mastodon is not that it's a Twitter clone, it's that it's federated, so any Mastodon instance can share it's "Toots"(ugh) with any other Mastodon instance (or advantageously, not).

In my imagined server, you would host your own 3D Files, and that data would be federated to other servers. Prusa might host it's server that has thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of objects, but when someone does a search, my dozens of objects show up there too.

[hahajk]

Or a “dogpile” for 3d printed things, like yeggi.com?

[sircastor]

The problem I see with Yeggi (and I've run into it a lot) is that it's just a web-scraping catalog. I've tried many times to download objects that were linked on Yeggi only to find that they've disappeared.

[traverseda]

Django? If so, send me and email.