@dw_innovation (It's still listed as pre-print, so calling it a paper is slightly misleading?)

Via @404mediaco:Epic Games is transforming the popular and partly free Sketchfab platform into Fab - a consolidated marketplace. This might have negative effects on a large number of items uploaded by scientists, artists, and archivist.The main lesson here: It's probably best to pick a truly open, sustainable, non-commercial platform right from the start?https://www.404media.co/scientists-and-archivists-worry-epic-games-control-of-the-3d-model-market-will-destroy-cultural-heritage/#CulturalHeritage #DigitalPreservation

@mapache @jakob @lxplm @dw_innovation Thanks Maho, but in fact Nick's first question to me that started the whole thread was actually how to interact with Lemmy from Mastodon (finding his Pixelfed account came up along the way), and then he also made a comment about wanting to optimise his posting, which opened up the whole can of worms, so in fact I was only answering what he asked me