Greetings leathercrafters! Since makers tend to make more than one sort of thing, and we crafters need to stick together, here’s a list of fellow creative communities for your navigation pleasure.
For each craft I’ll include the current most active community first as well as alternatives, and add each with their full URL as well as local links for Lemmy and Kbin users respectively.
3D PRINTING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
Bookbinding
COSPLAY
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
CROCHET
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
CROSS STITCH & EMBROIDERY
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (both cross stitch & embroidery in general)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
DICEMAKING
KNITTING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
LASER CUTTING
MODELS & MINIATURES
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (models in general)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (dollhouse miniatures)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (tabletop gaming miniatures)
POTTERY
SEWING & QUILTING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (sewing in general)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (reduce waste through sewing)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
SOAPMAKING
TATTING
WOODWORKING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (hand tool woodworking)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
MISC
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (cross-post your crafts here!)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (a celebration of lace, in any craft)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (NOTE: not accessible to users on lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works)
Posted with mod permission & I’ll keep it updated as I find more relevant groups / smaller groups merge etc.
Craft on, people. Craft on 🙂
Neat! Thanks for taking the time to make this list!
On an unrelated note: How did you make these “local” links? Sorry if the answer is obvious, I just can’t seem to find any documentation on how this wizardry can be achieved.
Thanks again! :)
You’re very welcome! For the local Lemmy links you can use
/c/community@instance
which makes a relative link from whichever home instance someone is on.The only issue with that is it’ll give a 404 not found error if your home instance hasn’t indexed that community yet, in which case you’ll need to fall back on searching for it the old fashioned way to subscribe.
Someone from Kbin kindly let me know that it should work the same for them but with an “m”, so
/m/community@instance
but I might have found a bug with that and need to get my Kbin-using husband to help me figure it out, so those links might update later.Trying my best to make it easy for people but it’s not straightforward! 😅