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Are there any #3DPrinting hardware manufacturers out there who *aren't* starting up their own hosting sites? Every single one we've looked at seems to have a Thingiverse-equivalent, of course focused on pushing their own printer hardware.
We'd like to try to convince the ones that *aren't* doing that to support an open ecosystem, so if you know of any, let us know who we should be talking to!
@wcbdata thanks! I did just do an application for their innovation fund, as it happens, so that sounds like it might be a promising avenue! https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/manyfold-open-source-self-hosted-federated-3d-model-hosting/44211
@manyfold Right? I'm irritated that they aren't investing in federated Manyfold instances.
@gooba42 yeah... I'm writing to the ones I can find who haven't done something yet to see if they're interested in supporting via https://opencollective.com/manyfold but it's not an obvious pitch...
@manyfold I'd suggest talking with Snapmaker. They're very comfortable with hacker culture and encourage & support it, and iirc, they were looking at ways to boost open model repos rather than build a walled garden...