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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.

New subscribers welcome!

Please visit our wiki, which is always and forever a work in progress.

Check out these alternative front-ends for this server:

https://gem.wetshaving.social - a nice modern interface

https://old.wetshaving.social - designed to look like old.reddit.com

Our sister Mastodon instance is https://wetshaving.social.

Community Rules

Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette
Rule 2 - Content Guidelines
Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure
Rule 4 - Advertising
Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content
Rule 10 - Moderator Discretion

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Are you new to the community? Have you been lurking and wondering how to jump in? Then you found the right place! Say hello, tell us about yourself, and talk about what you would like to learn.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey everyone. I just migrated from reddit and wanted to say hello. I was on the wetshaving sub for several years but I gave myself a new (but slightly related) username when I came here, so people are likely to not recognize me.

Anyway, is there anything I should know about using lemmy that differs from reddit? I see that SOTD posts and questions still go in their daily threads, anything else I should know?

(Also, I apologize if this question doesn’t belong here. I see that there’s both a Wednesday Daily Question Thread and a Welcome Wednesday, and this seemed the better place to post my comment. But let me know if there’s somewhere else this should go.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome! I decided to break out these two threads (Welcome Wednesday and DQT) to make creating the bot easier, honestly.

We tried to set this up as similar to the /r/WetShaving subreddit as possible. The main difference is that, since this is a server, we can create other subLemmys if we want. So some people have created ones for, say, [email protected]. But we’re trying to keep all of the main sub stuff here, and as similar to Reddit as possible.

Hope you enjoy this experiment!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I’m slowly learning my way around.

Question about formatting the SOTDs, does lemmy work the same as reddit in that regard (eg using *s to get words in bold, and two spaces after a line, etc)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mark-up is very similar to Reddit, I've yet to find any major differences.

If you use the web interface, there is a row of little buttons underneath the text box that you can use to pick bold, italics, link, etc. I found it useful :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks! I'll try it out on my next shave tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not new to the community, but new to kamisoris and I'm very curious:

What's the deal with the asymmetric edge? Am I correct in assuming it's only meant to be used on one side? Is there any advantage I'm missing making up for the obvious downside?

Does anyone here prefer traditional asymmetric kamisoris over straights? If yes, why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guys over at Badger and Blade have a post that I found rather informative.

TLDR:

  • It's made to be used by someone else on you

  • In theory, asymmetric edges can be made to a sharper edge, while lying flat on a surface on the other side

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This makes we want to find a left-handed kami so I can use both hands :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The obvious solution 🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@djundjila @wetshavingadmin From what I understand, kamisoris were originally meant to be used by a person shaving someone else. The belief is that you can get a better, longer lasting edge with only one side beveled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@cmlael67 @[email protected]
Makes sense if you're not meant to shave yourself 👍