The weekend, and the rain, has arrived.

What are we all up to? Mourning the lack of sun? Happy for the rain? Still playing Tears of the Kingdom with the curtains closed?

  • thegiddystitcher
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    1 year ago

    Not sure what you’re into but…deep breath…you asked for it.

    !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works (direct link) is a brand new one for cross stitch & embroidery, needs more people to join!

    !crochet@lemmy.ca (direct link) is the most active crochet one I’ve found, some nice convos happening in there already.

    !knitting@lemmy.world (direct link) again there’s a few but this seems most active.

    For sewing there seem to be two trying to get off the ground but neither seem super active. I’ll probably just pick one at random and start posting in it if that doesn’t change but they’re !sewing@lemmy.world (direct link) and !sewing@sh.itjust.works (direct link)

    !leathercraft@lemmy.ca (direct link) isn’t something I do personally but I do enjoy perving over their projects anyway.

    Erm…if I find any more I’ll come back and update this lol. Kind of one a one-woman mission to build a good list, then hopefully convince the various mods to sticky it so people who find one of these places can then find all the others too.

    (Also p.s. I don’t know how to format these links for Kbin so sorry if they don’t work. But hopefully I’ve made it a bit easier for any other Lemmings who stumble across this comment.)

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      1 year ago

      Oh my god, thank you for such a comprehensive list! I will be checking out each and every one of them a little later on.

      I feel like everyone really t needs to pull together and try and build all these communities to get this whole place rolling. Thriving more niche communities are vital to that.

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        1 year ago

        Yep absolutely! I can’t commit to running one myself but can at least do my part by being a patient explorer (and insufferable shill) of new communities lol.

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          1 year ago

          I think you should post your group collection to the front page in someway. We absolutely need to be pushing crafts and creative groups to the forefront. Thank you again!

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            1 year ago

            Honestly not even sure what you mean by “front page”, maybe that’s a Kbin thing?

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              1 year ago

              To be honest I’m not even sure either, but maybe a place that promotes groups and magazines.

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      1 year ago

      For what it’s worth, seems the bang syntax actually makes a direct link (makes people leave their instance), whereas the links you have as “direct links” (looks like /c/ syntax in the source) keep you inside your instance.

      For example, here’s the Trekkie community:

      Bang (!) syntax: !startrek@startrek.website

      /c/ syntax: Star Trek (written as [Star Trek](/c/startrek@startrek.website) not sure if there’s a way to autogenerate this)

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        1 year ago

        Yes I know, that’s why I added both types so everyone could get there. Sorry, not sure what you’re trying to tell me here but I am very tired so that’s probably not on you! 😄

        Oh, unless you’re confirming they work that way in Kbin too? In which case, awesome.

        Also a bit unrelated but where are you from that ! is called a bang? Never heard that before!

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          1 year ago

          To me, direct link means a link that will send me directly to the posts on their instance (i.e. a direct link to the Star Trek website will be https://startrek.website, not https://myinstance/c/startrek@startrek.website).

          Unless I’m somehow misunderstanding what direct link means here, which I might be? It seems more intuitive to me that the bang syntax would keep you inside your instance, not leave it.

          And yeah, using ! is known as bang when used in this sort of context!

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            1 year ago

            Oh right you were just disagreeing about terminology lol, fair enough. I just figured writing “direct link to where you can actually subscribe to avoid you having to do the whole copy paste palaver” was a bit of a mouthful 😆