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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.

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Happy Anniversary! (sub.wetshaving.social)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by walden@sub.wetshaving.social to c/wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social
 

I see a few cakes next to usernames (my cake day is June 10th).

It has been an interesting year, so thanks for hanging in there!

This Lemmy instance is a nice place to hang out, so here’s to many more!

I worked on the database stuff some more today and ~~didn’t have any luck with getting federation of comments working again. I decided to upgrade the server to the new release, 0.19.4 even though it’s so new, with hopes that it might jump start some federation stuff – and so far it hasn’t!~~ finally got federation back to a working state, at least so it seems, maybe?! Thanks @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me.

The new version has some neat new features, though.

Under your profile you can click “Uploads” and see all of the pictures you’ve uploaded. Some of them seem to be “lost”, but that’s par for the course. You can even delete the pictures. Yay!

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 5 points 5 months ago (27 children)

@gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social sorry! As is the norm around here these days, I deleted your comment LOL!

Yes, it would be nice to Reddit slowly die, but all of these tech giants have done similar things with seemingly no consequences. At least the people here are Lemmy know better, and are better for it!

[–] PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 5 months ago (25 children)

it would be nice to Reddit slowly die

I was wondering if we couldn't try to do something on our level about this. We have quite some spillover from Reddit to our lemmy (Lather Games, AA, Theme Thursdays) – and if I remember well, someone complained about this – but there's no spillover from us to Reddit. If there were any, this might remind some of the residents over there that we exist. The main issue is that we don't have any instance specific events. It would be good if we had something (ideally: periodical, and which does not enter in competition with r/WetShaving events)

Maybe a weekly "Just Lemmy Shave" Day (you will find a better title) which obviously could not be Thursday, and whose themes would be chosen in advance just like Theme Thursdays ?

Or any better ideas?

[–] djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (16 children)

One thing I really enjoyed while making the Audio Book Club Shaves podcasts was the coordinated group shaves.

It's different from Theme Thursdays in that it needs prep. In essence:

  1. People propose soaps they want to "discuss".
  2. Popular proposals get selected (presumably by Lemmy vote?).
  3. The person who proposes a selected soap sends smushes to the participants.
  4. We shave with the soap all on the same day, sharing our experience.

It sounds more complicated than it is, and it creates a strong group event feeling.

It would also have the spillover effect you mentioned over to Reddit in the form of @walden@sub.wetshaving.social's, @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social's, @sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social's, @whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social's and my SOTD posts (assuming they'd participate) because we still regularly post in both forums.

Thoughts?

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