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Hello! I'm a member of the FossCAD community and was wondering if it would be okay to host c/Fosscad here on lemm.ee. Fosscad@lemmy.world was recently removed as the admin wasnt comfortable hosting printed arms content.

This potential Fosscad community would be about discussing the safe and technologically interesting art of printing of guns and other arms. A practice that is legal in the United States for most citizens.

I just wanted to ask first, since I can definitely understand that its a potentially touchy subject even if completely legal.

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[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The lemm.ee backend is hosted in Europe, and as far as I understand, it seems that homemade firearms are illegal in most of Europe. In other words, I don't think this instance would be a good fit.

[–] sudo22@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Zevlen@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why's it called FossCAD?... I THOUGHT CAD stands for computer assisted drafting and design?

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe midwest.social would be a good fit? They're a US instance, so there shouldn't be any legal issues with FossCAD stuff there. They've also got a Socialist Rifle Association community already, so it seems that gun communities aren't unwelcome.

[–] sudo22@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I connected the links.hackliberty.org admin and theyre okay with hosting it on their c/Guns

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like kbin blocks hackliberty. I'm assuming that at least a few others do too, due to the conspiracy theorist bent of hackliberty. In any case, midwest.social is significantly larger, and you'd have better reach there.

[–] sudo22@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That might be a better fit. The conspiracy stuff was very off putting once I saw it.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cool cool. Ping me once you get it set up? I'm not directly involved in any FossCAD stuff, but I'm interested in seeing more firearms content in general on the threadiverse.

[–] sudo22@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can do. Likely a weekend activity though. Ill have to learn a bit since I've never opened a community before.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’d also appreciate a ping

[–] sudo22@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] xor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

!guns@links.hackliberty.org
just trying links...

[–] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Agree w@cacheson@kbin.social. Midwest.social sits at the conflux of many communities that would be interested in fosscad.

[–] sudo22@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago