WetShaving

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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/).

🪒 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/.

🪒 Track the uptime of our various services here:

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

🪒 Community Rules

Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette

Be Respectful. Do not bully, flame, or harass others.
Malicious comments are not allowed but heated discussion and salty banter is okay.
Low effort replies and complaints about content will be removed.

Rule 2 - Content Guidelines

Mail Calls, Simple Questions, and SOTD posts belong in the recurring weekly threads.
Posts must have sufficient content to generate a meaningful discussion.
Images, links, or videos must include additional text that summarizes the topic.

Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure

Use [First Impressions] in the title if your experience with the product is limited.
Use the [Review] in the title if you can provide comprehensive details with enough familiarity to answer follow-up questions.
Disclose how the product being reviewed was acquired (e.g., PIF, loan, or purchase). If the product was provided to you directly by the maker or vendor free of charge or at a discount, you must disclose this fact even if the item will later be returned to the maker or vendor.

Rule 4 - Advertising

Vendors are to keep marketing within the biweekly Deals/New Products threads.
Non-vendors may post topics about products if it will foster a compelling discussion.
Do not solicit donations or share fundraisers without mod approval.

Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content

All NSFW/L content must request mod approval and be flaired appropriately.
Non-shaving related NSFW/L content is not allowed.

Rule 10 - Moderator Discretion

The rules may not apply perfectly to every situation. The mods have final discretion.

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[Meta] A personal appeal to consider PieFed (wetshav.ing)

submitted 1 week ago by walden@wetshav.ing to c/wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social

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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:

Turn off registration for Lemmy -- no new users.
For people who land on Lemmy, have a blurb pointing them to PieFed.
Keep Lemmy turned on to preserve everything.
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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[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

😅

Your account on sub.wetshaving.social is cool and good, and that software is called "Lemmy". Lemmy was created by communists who got banned from Reddit and decided to make a Reddit alternative. https://sub.wetshaving.social/ is just one of thousands of Lemmy instances.

The new hotness is called PieFed. It's similar but different, but with your knowledge of Lemmy you should be able to poke around on https://wetshav.ing/ just the same. PieFed is made by some very nice, very not communist people.

Lemmy can have trouble retaining users, because if you wander outside of your niche (wetshaving) it can get pretty toxic. PieFed has protections in place to reduce the toxicity. IMO if PieFed existed during the original Reddit boycott, it would have been much more successful than Lemmy. If there's another Reddit boycott I hope it gains more traction.