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.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

wetshavingadmin@sub.wetshaving.social

merikus@sub.wetshaving.social

walden@sub.wetshaving.social

djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social

Free Talk Friday - August 15th, 2025 (sub.wetshaving.social)

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[–] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hope everyone is doing well and having a good summer!

Running Lemmy is a fun (most of the time) hobby for me, so naturally when I heard about PieFed I wanted to give that a shot, too. I've started a server at https://wetshav.ing/

PieFed is a Lemmy alternative, with additional features that aim to make it easier to moderate, and perhaps aim to make it a nicer place overall.

Decide for yourself if you'd like to try it: https://join.piefed.social/features/

You can apply for an account at https://wetshav.ing/ and I'll approve it ASAP. For now I'm limiting it to usernames that I recognize.

[–] DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 2 months ago

From the features listed alone, it seems like PieFed is ambitious to improve the Fediverse forum idea to a level of the old Reddit experience most of us knew. I kinda wish there was a Fediverse app that would include all of the communities and all content (except that which you block/blacklist/disable yourself) is visible. I like the concept of Matrix, where you sign up to the general service by picking a suitable server, then you can freely choose your app of choice - e.g. people on Element/Element X can still interact with those using FluffyChat. This is vastly different to the usual monopoly a messenger has over its userbase and - IMHO - a great step in the right direction for user friendly applications and processes. Since I want the Fediverse idea to succeed, I will try out PieFed. Since snooting mentioned that it's supported by Voyager, I'll try that. Thanks for your efforts!