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WetShaving
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.
๐ช 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/.
๐ช Track the uptime of our various services here:
https://uptime.selfhost.ing/status/wetshaving
๐ช Community Rules
Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette
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Be Respectful. Do not bully, flame, or harass others.
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Malicious comments are not allowed but heated discussion and salty banter is okay.
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Low effort replies and complaints about content will be removed.
Rule 2 - Content Guidelines
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Mail Calls, Simple Questions, and SOTD posts belong in the recurring weekly threads.
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Posts must have sufficient content to generate a meaningful discussion.
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Images, links, or videos must include additional text that summarizes the topic.
Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure
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Use [First Impressions] in the title if your experience with the product is limited.
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Use the [Review] in the title if you can provide comprehensive details with enough familiarity to answer follow-up questions.
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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
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Vendors are to keep marketing within the biweekly Deals/New Products threads.
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Non-vendors may post topics about products if it will foster a compelling discussion.
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Do not solicit donations or share fundraisers without mod approval.
Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content
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All NSFW/L content must request mod approval and be flaired appropriately.
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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.
17.08.2025
First test of an SOTD post from my PieFed-account. Otherwise yeah, it's the same old Dave you all know.
I've now landed on Summit as my Fediverse app of choice, unfortunately not on Droidify/F-Droid but seemingly a nice app with the same high level of customization as I was used to by Raccoon. As for PieFed, it's still a bit early to make a full statement - it seems like it federates well with Lemmy but I can't make any further statements yet. As a normal user who isn't a mod/admin of any community, my first impression is that it loads everything quickly and that's nice - I haven't seen too many bad posts that are auto hidden or anything in terms of low quality tags yet, but maybe that's an API thing too. Unfortunately Summit doesn't show our SOTD logo picture, and according to walden PieFed still lacks picture upload support at the moment (which would be better for our hobby). Maybe I can share more concise thoughts in a few weeks, so I'll still keep my Lemmy account on standby...
So for this shave itself: I basically had to wait until today for everything to heal up after my misfortune with the shavette. As for a tiny mishap, I forgot to check which guide comb was on my trimmer earlier and trimmed my henriquatre to just 1.5 mm instead of 3 mm, so I actually had to re-shape it with my zero gap trimmer as it was barely recognizable from the surrounding stubble. This shave was really necessary to give it a sharp look.
The shave itself went way better than expected, just 3 little blood spots appeared on the second pass (I couldn't really call them weepers since they immediately stopped bleeding after a cold water rinse and applying the aftershave). FMoM is great as always and it was slick enough for the tricky contouring work. A big success!
Anyways, please let me know if anything looks weird in my posts. Still getting used to the new app. Hope everyone had a nice weekend!
I hadn't noticed the lack of thumbnail, good catch! On Lemmy it's very client specific, but I guess PieFed doesn't show any thumbnail if there's no link associated with the post. I'll ask Rimu about it. I think our use of a thumbnail for posts is pretty niche.
Pretty niche but nice nonetheless ๐ The "missing link" sounds very likely. Most Lemmy clients I had except Raccoon don't show the SOTD thumbnail, but it does add some context IMHO.