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This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.

New subscribers welcome!

Please visit our wiki, which is always and forever a work in progress.

While this server is funded by personal contributions, we'd like to thank Zulip for giving us a Community subscription to their chat software (available at https://chat.wetshav.ing/).

๐Ÿช’ Check out these alternative front-ends for this server:

https://gem.wetshaving.social/ - a nice modern interface

Our sister Mastodon instance is https://wetshaving.social/.

๐Ÿช’ Track the uptime of our various services here:

https://uptime.selfhost.ing/status/wetshaving

๐Ÿช’ Community Rules

Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette
Rule 2 - Content Guidelines
Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure
Rule 4 - Advertising
Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content
Rule 10 - Moderator Discretion

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Edit: TLDR; please subscribe to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing. This Lemmy community isn't going anywhere, but the daily posts won't be here going forward.

First, I'd like to thank you all for keeping the wetshaving fediverse active with interesting and delightful content! We are approaching the 1000th daily SOTD thread since the inception of the wetshaving Lemmy, and during those 1000 days a lot has changed!

Scrolling through this post it's evident that most of our users have switched to PieFed. In observing this trend, I believe it's an acceptable time to switch things up.

What do I need to do?

Ensure that you are subscribed to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing. You can still use Lemmy of course, as the activity will federate.

Hint for PieFed usersIf you're using PieFed, there's also a Topic that I've built available here. A topic is a group of related communities. You can't edit Topics, but you can use the topic to create your own "Feed" of wetshaving stuff. Just thought I'd mention the option.

What will change?

Daily SOTD threads will begin to be posted to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing in the coming days. !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social will continue to exist.

Free Talk Friday posts will begin to be posted to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing in the coming days.

When will it happen?

Just as soon as I sit down and make the changes. Ideally you won't even notice since federation is slick and refined at this point. I will make a sticky post on !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social directing people towards !wetshaving@wetshav.ing when it's done.

Don't like it? Sound off in the comments!

Did I miss something? Any big downsides that I haven't considered? Let me know below!

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If you have used any such razors what was your experience with it.

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Share your Shave of the Day for Thursday!

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Today is the third Wednesday of the month, and it's time for the Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club โ€“ our monthly community event! Join us, brothers (and sisters?) in the stank^TM^!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Wednesday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Tuesday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Monday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Sunday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Saturday!

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Talk amongst yourselves.

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Share your Shave of the Day for Friday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Thursday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Wednesday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Tuesday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Monday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Sunday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Saturday!

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Talk amongst yourselves.

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Share your Shave of the Day for Friday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Thursday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Wednesday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Tuesday!

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Don't worry, this post isn't about shutting anything down or forcing a move to PieFed!

Basically, I've become a huge fan of PieFed as compared to Lemmy. There are philosophical differences between the two, but it is typically left to the admins on whether to implement these differences (icons for new users, icons for people with low karma, tracking karma in general, the list goes on).

Our users, meaning people with accounts on a wetshaving hosted platform (so not including people who interact from other instances), are split about 50/50 between PieFed (https://wetshav.ing/) and Lemmy (https://sub.wetshaving.social/).

What's wrong with the current setup? One minor inconvenience -- the private BVWSC Voting community.

Ideally we would all be on one platform so we all see the voting posts, but as of now it requires workarounds for visibility.

I propose the following:

  1. Turn off registration for Lemmy -- no new users.
  2. For people who land on Lemmy, have a blurb pointing them to PieFed.
  3. Keep Lemmy turned on to preserve everything.
  4. Urge the rest of our users to consider PieFed.

I'm sure there are opinions on both sides and I'm happy to keep things how they are if there's no consensus.

This isn't a cost saving thing or a lack of interest thing, as both servers will be kept on.

PieFed is supported by most of the major mobile apps, but if there's some incompatibility then let me know. I don't have a way of knowing which mobile apps people use.

PieFed does have a way to sort of migrate your Lemmy account so you don't lose all of the communities you're following. So that's cool!

Really the only advantage is having everyone on the same instance for the private voting community. That's it. So sound off if you don't think it's worth it!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Monday!

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Share your Shave of the Day for Sunday!

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