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Ooh what kind of crafts? Our library used to have a knit and natter, but it only happened at like 10am on a Wednesday so effectively banned working-age folks. And now even that is gone. Bah.
It's a shame when there aren't outside of working time options. I often wonder when we are supposed to engage with all this stuff?
We have a kids craft on a Saturday at the library, my kid is currently making a paper fish. We take a lot of paper craft stuff home with us!
You might be able to find a knit and natter group on Facebook, I know there are some around us that do the post box toppers.
Honestly I made one friend through Ravelry years ago, and that seems to be about it around here in terms of crafters who are under retirement age. Such is life in small towns! I think there is a lot more stuff for young kids on a weekend though, basically the demographic here is "parents" and "old people" and if you're neither you're out of luck!
At least there's online though. I'm loving seeing all the new crafty communities popping up on here, just hope they can get enough content to keep going 🤞
You are absolutely right it does seem that more stuff is either parent or retirement age focused!
Have you found many good craft communities on the fediverse? I haven't seen much creative content on kbin so far?
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.)
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.
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.
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!
Honestly not even sure what you mean by "front page", maybe that's a Kbin thing?
To be honest I'm not even sure either, but maybe a place that promotes groups and magazines.
Well I shilled all those groups on my Mastodon too, you never know :D
Amazing thanks for posting those links. I'm trying to get into crochet at the moment and need all the tips I can get
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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)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!
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!
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 😆