I’d like to pivot away from being a r/wetshaving replacement, and move towards being another place to share your shave stuff. I still have some work to do, but up until yesterday, anyone asking to join was asked to explain their relationship to r/wetshaving, and in the absence of that tell us what their favorite shave soaps are. Not great for people who are interested in wetshaving but haven’t started yet. I’d like to be more open than that. I believe it was set up that way in the beginning to avoid any major snafus with bots and spammers, etc, but now we’re past that. In fact, I’m going to disable the requirement to answer a question before following this community and see how it goes.

The time and money for hosting aren’t a problem right now, and won’t be for the foreseeable future.

Hosting a LG or AA here would be cool! I agree that it would have to start out being side-by-side with r/wetshaving. In fact, I’ll add some AA posts to the bot sometime today. I want to add additional auto posts like Mail Call, etc., too. Maybe in the future, the LG committee and shill this forum and give an extra point if the user cross-posts all 30 shaves here.

As far as people taking a break (or quitting) Lemmy, that doesn’t bother me. Lemmy saw a huge boost from the Reddit API thing, but it was temporary. Not just here, but everywhere. Now that this instance is established, it needs to be a natural migration of old and new users alike.

I saw a stat recently where the amount of interaction with Lemmy has gone up quite a bit with the release of Sync for Lemmy (the Android app). I do see mobile apps increasing the overall usage of Lemmy in the long term. Mastodon had a great app from the start when people started to bail from Twitter, and I think that probably helped them retain a lot of the refugees.