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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.

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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!

[–] EldrormR 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alright. Let's see how this works.

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 6 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the Salty Spittoon! How tough are ya?

[–] archsoup 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

where are the shaving feetpics

[–] absenth 3 points 1 year ago

I aim to please....

[–] ahjoyc2 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did I do it right?

[–] merikus 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This got me thinking. We have the barn, the ranch, the coop, and this is what? The sugar shack?

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 4 points 1 year ago

The love shack?

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feature questions:

Can we have flairs for our usernames?
For top level posts, can we get tags (like discussion, product review, shitpost, etc.)?

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't appear either of those things are possible at this time.

Here's some discussions on these issues:

Post Tags: https://github.com/LemmyNet/Lemmy/issues/317

User Flair: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, thanks!

[–] heyitsgerard 4 points 1 year ago

I'm just here so I don't get fined.

[–] whosgotthepudding 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I doing it right?

[–] merikus 5 points 1 year ago

Welcome!

[–] gcgallant 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first experience here was great. I did a copypasta of markdown from my shaving log to the SOTD thread and it was perfect. I looked into Lemmy on GitHub and am all for it. I like the idea of working out initial quirks during a short alpha period and then federate. Overall this might be less work for the admin.

[–] djundjila 3 points 1 year ago

The thing with working out the quirks is that some of them will only become apparent after we federate, though 😅

[–] SpongeBob 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Neat
I like the idea of a Reddit-y formatted social media hub. I don't really see the value of the Tweeter-styled social media hub for wetshaving, myself; can't imagine I'll join the Mastodon thing.

[–] djundjila 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this seems like a much better fit for our community. Unsurprisingly 😅

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago

Twitter never was my thing. I'm happy we have both (particularly since they're federated, so you can follow one on the other which is cool), but this is more my speed.

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried in my profile to set the ordering to by New, but I still get the filtering by Hot when I go to a thread. Is this a sublemmy default setting, or does the the account override not work?

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe those preferences in your settings are for posts and not comments, unfortunately.

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 2 points 1 year ago

[–] Jwoods23 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for starting this for us! This looks way more promising of a replacement than Mastodon is. Going to have growing pains for sure but the people of this wetshaving community are worth working through those pains!

[–] merikus@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder why I don't see any comments here.

[–] merikus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see your comment. Do you see mine?

[–] merikus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, but I don't see anyone else's.

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 4 points 1 year ago

@merikus@sub.wetshaving.social I blocked @BeefButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social on my account, and this seems to work.

[–] Tetriside 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is already looking like a good alternative. It's good to see an option that resembles reddit. Thanks for setting this up @merikus@sub.wetshaving.social !

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago

Happy you’re enjoying it!

[–] Mayana 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This Lemmy thing looks neat so far! Glad to be here!

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666 3 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Agree that it looks good!

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome! Thanks for agreeing to try it out!

[–] djundjila 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yay, thanks for setting this up!

I vote we should absolutely federate from day one. It's how we will grow.

[–] merikus 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that makes sense, and my preference will be for us to Federate as soon as we get out of alpha!

[–] djundjila 3 points 1 year ago

Alpha is the best moment to try federation, though 😄

[–] HomeAwayFromHone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome, this seems like an improvement--way faster, no trackers/ads and the community has control of the platform. Thanks for coordinating it!

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy you’re enjoying it! If you’re interested in exploring communities on other Lemmys, I posted something over in !ws_server_announce@sub.wetshaving.social about how to easily find communities across the Lemmyverse.

[–] HomeAwayFromHone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I actually found this instance via https://browse.feddit.de/ :)

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So happy to hear that! Our group came from a Reddit community and we were worried if we would find any new members if we moved to Lemmy. Great to hear that you were able to find us that way. Please let me know if you have any questions!

[–] HomeAwayFromHone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will do! Been a regular lurker at r/wetshaving for a few years now, posted way more on r/wicked_edge though because I was more likely to see people's questions there. I do see how it makes things more organised but the daily threads really don't click with my idle browsing habits alas.

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s understandable. One thing I really like about Lemmy is the ability to browse my home feed by new comments. Finding that really makes it easier for me to keep up on things in the community.

[–] HomeAwayFromHone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since we have a whole instance now do you think it might be worth considering something like c/AskWetshaving? Seems like it could be the best of both worlds: people who don't mind seeing the same questions asked over and over can subscribe to that community and those who just want to pop in now and then can do that too without the noise cluttering up their feed.

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a great question. One thing that we’re trying to balance is keeping the feel of the original subreddit while also getting the full utility out of the new Lemmy format. I think that our hope is that people who are interested in traditional wet shaving will find !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social and get the full experience there: SOTD thread, DQT, weekly threads (once I get that bot to start working…), etc. However, some members have suggested that we could have more specialized communities that may not get as much traffic but could be a good resource if people want to see more specialized content. So, for example, @iamsms@sub.wetshaving.social set up !de_razors@sub.wetshaving.social for more specialized DE razor content.

I think it’s all a work in progress at this point. I could see the benefit of /c/askwetshaving but I’m worried it would kill the DQT thread, which has been an important part of the community culture.

[–] HomeAwayFromHone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense! And clearly the DQT works well for most. Mind if I try a a /c/straight_razors?

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please do!

[–] HomeAwayFromHone 2 points 1 year ago

And so I did...