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.splettnet.com/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.
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February 12, 2025
Nocturne smelled so good today.
Accidentally on theme for Atlas Shaves if I weren't out!
A little "fediverse drama" I thought I'd share -- one of the three instances in the "tankie triad", hexbear.net (the other two being lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml) didn't renew their domain name, and it's currently up for auction https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net.
If they don't get their domain back (the current bid is $1921 USD), they'll have to either start from scratch with a new domain or attempt to update their config to match a new domain. Lemmy (and the fediverse at large) isn't designed to handle domain changes, so it'll be interesting to see if that even works.
It couldn't have happened to a better bunch! I have hexbear.net blocked, for context. I should add the other two to my block list, now that I think of it.
As much as they suck, please don't add ".ml" to the block list. I'm following a few instances registered on there for FOSS apps, back when it was one of the only servers open for registration.
My personal block list is what I was referring to. We currently don't block anything at the site level.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood that. ๐ I can definitely see the point in that then, even though I myself am politically left-leaning; it's a quite harsh/borderline extremist userbase on those servers.
(Side question: so it's not a limitation of our server if some communities are displayed as "completely empty" despite having thousands of members and hundreds of posts?)
If a single user of sub.wetshaving.social subscribes to a community, our instance will start pulling new content for that community. Old content isn't really pulled, even if you subscribe.
If nobody is subscribed, the first time someone views it it'll probably show as empty. In the background it's doing its best to gather some posts though, so refreshing after 10 seconds should show the most recent content.
Thanks for the thorough explanation! It is really helpful. I always assumed it was due to the small size of our instance and that it might not be federated with every single server. What you wrote makes a lot more sense though!
No problem. To expand on it a tiny bit, once a single user subscribes to a community, that community is then shown under "all". "All" doesn't show anything if nobody is subscribed.