I bought an Artillery 3d Genius, after owning an Ender 3 for 4 years. It has worked flawlessly out of the box, while I needed to tinker with the Ender endlessly.

There is a 3d printing discord, that has an often updated flow chart. Assuming you dont want resin, the choice is mostly based on how big you want to print + budget:

• <200m^3: Kingroon KP3S ($170) or Prusa mini+ ($460)
• <300m^3: Artillery Hornet ($170), Sovol SV06 ($300), Prusa MK3S ($800-$1100)
• 300m^3+: Sovol SV03 ($400), Ultimaker S3 ($5k)

Those are extremely expensive. You’ll never recoup your costs unless you have a significant amount of scrap. If you are doing it be a good citizen, the maybe find some other locals who would use it was well?

All of the ones I knew of disappeared. I don’t think it’s really financially viable for the companies that were trying to allow folks to ship materials, without it being obscenely expensive. And to be honest, the idea of shipping waste seems backwards. Local seems like the only good sustainable answer, and I haven’t found any in my area.

What I did was find a local maker space that had a grinding machine, and ground up my used PLA. I then donated it to the space for misc usage. Folks there use the PLA chips for all sorts of projects.

Is there anyway to scale an instance by adding more nodes? Not be adding additional instances, but more of a distributed load balancing for a given instance? What about migrating communities to a different hardware instance? What scaling challenges does Lemmy face that something like Mastondon doesn’t?

I’m sure there are many folks (myself included) who have technical resources that are not community builders. I’m sure if there if there is a way to spread the load, enough folks want this to succeed to make it work.

Most of my questions are less about the nuts and bolts of setting up an instance, and more about broader topics. Example: can their be a backup of an instance, both for load balancing and for redundancy? Can individual communities be migrated from one instance to another?

I want to see all the niche game specific subs, or at least how they used to be. Reddit started going downhill recently, with lots of good discussion moving to discord, and subreddits just being flooded with memes. I hate searching for anything on Discord…