Lol, I know the painting struggle! I have loads of minis from artisan guild printed out for my DnD game in various states of painting.
I'm really loving the Craftsman. I haven't played with too many resins, I used zmud for a while on my mono 4k but I've had such great luck with the Craftsman that I'm pretty sold on it.
I've been basically printing non stop for about a month and a half with only a few failures, all due to support issues.
Lemmy right now feels like reddit from the early 2010s. The community is still quite small, it's mostly still early adopters and folks looking for an alternative to big social medias, which attracts a different crowd than the mainstream.
It's actually a hit of nostalgia for me, I'm kind of into the weirdness and intimacy of a smaller community, but I certainly understand where you're coming from.
One of my favorite niche subreddits has over 600k members, the biggest equivalent community has about 350ish users here, there's a certain quality that comes with that quantity of users.
But if we stick with it more folks will join and we can make this place into what we want it to be, and that's pretty cool imo. Lemmy is still in it's infancy compared to reddit, and it's not perfect, but I think we can build it into something even better, and missing the good parts of reddit can inspire us to make sure that we incorporate them into lemmy in the future.