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Eric Portis
@ericportis.com

briarpress.org is an amazing community and practicing a craft is fulfilling. And: watching the last generation of professional printers age, keep up the hobby in their garages, enthusiastically answer a dwindling number of questions on internet forums, and pass away, has been: sad. We lost so much.

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Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social

Maybe for creative code and personal projects, I could see people showing their skills- just like advanced lithography made printmaking for newspapers obsolete but then a small amount of presses were brought back for artistic purposes

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Eric Portis
@ericportis.com

There's a magic to it! And there's a freedom to being outside the realm of commercial activity that can be great for really chasing that magic (and building community - Ravelry!). But without money or jobs, opportunities to practice a craft decline, and IMO the craft ultimately suffers.