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.

🪒 Check out these alternative front-ends for this server:

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

https://old.wetshaving.social/ - designed to look like old.reddit.com

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

🪒 Track the uptime of our various services here:

https://uptime.splettnet.com/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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Hello, World! (self.wetshaving)

submitted 1 year ago by merikus to c/wetshaving

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Welcome, everyone, to the Lemmy WetShaving Community.

With the API changes at Reddit, some in /r/WetShaving are considering migrating to other platforms. We presently have a growing Mastodon server at http://wetshaving.social, a Discord server, and an IRC channel. The hope is that Lemmy will become a useful addition to those other opportunities for this community to interact. However, that is ultimately up to the community, and if this isn't working we can try something else.

At the present time this entire thing is an alpha test. I am still working on server configuration. If you encounter any bugs, please message me so I can either figure out what is going wrong, or email our hosting service about it. We are presently one of the only beta testers of Lemmy hosting at knthost.com. They are presently providing us this for free in exchange for beta feedback, and when the beta period ends the cost will be about $10 a month.

Ultimately, once the alpha period is over, the hope is to have a conversation about how we can ensure sustainable self-governance for this community. But, at present, this is all about just getting things up and running and seeing if people want to continue to use this service. We also need to think about Federation, which is the only way for us to gain new members if Reddit implodes. Right now we are private and not Federated.

Things I will be working on in the near term is automating the daily SOTD and DQT posts, putting together the rules, etc. So please just play nice in the sandbox while those things are getting going.

Thanks for joining on this post-Reddit adventure, I'm looking forward to seeing where it brings us.

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[–] WegianWarrior 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Late to the game, but.. I like it already. Feels like home almost right away, once I got the dark theme set :P

/edit: I approve of the use of King Gillette's first patent as the image in the side bar btw ;)

[–] merikus 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Lemmy is much more my speed than other federated/open source social media I’ve used. Not surprising because Reddit was my favorite social media.

I appreciate you recognizing the patent, didn’t know what else to put there. Ultimately I want to set up the sidebar contest again for that space!