Welcome, everyone, to the Lemmy WetShaving Community.

With the API changes at Reddit, some in /r/WetShaving are considering migrating to other platforms. We presently have a growing Mastodon server at http://wetshaving.social, a Discord server, and an IRC channel. The hope is that Lemmy will become a useful addition to those other opportunities for this community to interact. However, that is ultimately up to the community, and if this isn’t working we can try something else.

At the present time this entire thing is an alpha test. I am still working on server configuration. If you encounter any bugs, please message me so I can either figure out what is going wrong, or email our hosting service about it. We are presently one of the only beta testers of Lemmy hosting at knthost.com. They are presently providing us this for free in exchange for beta feedback, and when the beta period ends the cost will be about $10 a month.

Ultimately, once the alpha period is over, the hope is to have a conversation about how we can ensure sustainable self-governance for this community. But, at present, this is all about just getting things up and running and seeing if people want to continue to use this service. We also need to think about Federation, which is the only way for us to gain new members if Reddit implodes. Right now we are private and not Federated.

Things I will be working on in the near term is automating the daily SOTD and DQT posts, putting together the rules, etc. So please just play nice in the sandbox while those things are getting going.

Thanks for joining on this post-Reddit adventure, I’m looking forward to seeing where it brings us.

  • WegianWarrior
    6·
    1 year ago

    Late to the game, but… I like it already. Feels like home almost right away, once I got the dark theme set :P

    /edit: I approve of the use of King Gillette’s first patent as the image in the side bar btw ;)

    • merikusOPMA
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, Lemmy is much more my speed than other federated/open source social media I’ve used. Not surprising because Reddit was my favorite social media.

      I appreciate you recognizing the patent, didn’t know what else to put there. Ultimately I want to set up the sidebar contest again for that space!

  • Jwoods23
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for starting this for us! This looks way more promising of a replacement than Mastodon is. Going to have growing pains for sure but the people of this wetshaving community are worth working through those pains!

  • gcgallant
    4·
    1 year ago

    My first experience here was great. I did a copypasta of markdown from my shaving log to the SOTD thread and it was perfect. I looked into Lemmy on GitHub and am all for it. I like the idea of working out initial quirks during a short alpha period and then federate. Overall this might be less work for the admin.

    • djundjilaMA
      3·
      1 year ago

      The thing with working out the quirks is that some of them will only become apparent after we federate, though 😅

  • PorkButtsNTaters666
    4·
    1 year ago

    Feature questions:

    • Can we have flairs for our usernames?

    • For top level posts, can we get tags (like discussion, product review, shitpost, etc.)?

  • SpongeBob
    4·
    1 year ago

    Neat
    I like the idea of a Reddit-y formatted social media hub. I don’t really see the value of the Tweeter-styled social media hub for wetshaving, myself; can’t imagine I’ll join the Mastodon thing.

    • djundjilaMA
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this seems like a much better fit for our community. Unsurprisingly 😅

    • merikusOPMA
      2·
      1 year ago

      Twitter never was my thing. I’m happy we have both (particularly since they’re federated, so you can follow one on the other which is cool), but this is more my speed.

  • PorkButtsNTaters666
    4·
    1 year ago

    I tried in my profile to set the ordering to by New, but I still get the filtering by Hot when I go to a thread. Is this a sublemmy default setting, or does the the account override not work?

  • Mayana
    3·
    1 year ago

    This Lemmy thing looks neat so far! Glad to be here!