Post your shave of the day for Monday!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations • Favorite scents, bases, etc • Where to buy certain items • Identification of a razor you just bought • Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here.

Tell us about what’s going on in your life outside of shaving this past week!

Tell us about your new gear!

Tell us about what’s going on in your life outside of shaving this past week!

Now that we are beginning to see more members, I wanted to open up the topic of server-wide rules. I adapted the server-wide rules from the /r/WetShaving subreddit rules, since I figured that was a good baseline. But they are more geared towards a subreddit rather than a server.

I don’t intend on taking any action on new rules until we have had at least a week of discussion, unless someone points out a glaring error that needs to be immediately fixed. However, if there is anything you think needs to be added, deleted, or changed, please discuss here.

Tell us about your new gear!

This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations
• Favorite scents, bases, etc
• Where to buy certain items
• Identification of a razor you just bought
• Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here.

Just a quick heads-up that I federated our server with Lemmy.ml, which is the "big" Lemmy server. What that means is that people who have accounts on the main Lemmy instance, Lemmy.ml, can find and join our community, so it's possible we may see some newbies come in. It also means that you can use your account here to join communities on Lemmy.ml.

I'm being very careful with this at first because I don't want to deal with a lot of spam. I reserve the right to turn it off if spam becomes a problem. But hopefully it won't, and I'll be able to deal with whatever comes along easily enough. Use that downvote and report button!

At first this is going to be clunky, because our server is still working on federating with theirs. So, if you were to look at a conversation over at Lemmy.ml right now, it would look like a ghost town. But that's just because our server is in the early phases of federating with them. As time goes on, it will become seamless.

Also, there's no good way for us to search for communities on Lemmy.ml right now, because we are in the early stages of federation and no one has joined those communities yet. The only way to do so right now is to go to https://lemmy.ml, click Communities at the top, and search or browse. You can then come back here to your account, click the magnifying glass symbol on the top, type into search:

[email protected]

and you'll be able to join it. Again, at first it may seem like there are not a lot of posts, but this is because we are still in this early federation period.

This is also a good moment to plug !ws_server_announce[email protected], where I will normally post announcements such as these, and !ws_server_discussion[email protected], which is what it sounds like, a place to discuss anything involving the server and its administration. Please feel free to join both of those if that interests you.

Thanks again for being part of this experiment!

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.