This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations • Favorite scents, bases, etc • Where to buy certain items • Identification of a razor you just bought • Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here.

    • SpongeBob@sub.wetshaving.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Those are both pretty decent razors with their own quirks. Both can be quite comfortable and give good close shaves once you master them. Both are durable as heck.

      I would probably get one of the Grande Gentile instead of Piccolo Gentile razors if you go the Fatip route though; I prefer the larger handle, personally.

        • SpongeBob@sub.wetshaving.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          Piccolo = small handle; Grande = big handle. “Testina Gentile” is the closed-comb head and it’s available with either handle. They don’t have a specific designation for the open comb model afaik.

          Neither handle is Large. I would describe the Piccolo as Teeny (like a ball-end Tech) and the Grande as Medium (similar to a typical Merkur / Edwin Jagger / Muhle handle).

  • sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    So I’ve been posting my SOTD photo to the wetshaving.social Mastodon instance, and linking just the photo from there to my SOTD post on Lemmy. Here’s today’s post for reference. I also have an imgur link in the post for comparison. Is anyone having issues with accessing it from the app or the site? Is there a better (federated) way to link these posts?

  • souleater7173@sub.wetshaving.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m seeing posts from Lemmy show up on Mastodon. Does this mean there’s a way to link these accounts so that, for example, my post in the SotD thread shows up as a post on Mastodon?

    • merikus@sub.wetshaving.socialM
      1·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. Lemmy and Mastodon all operate under the activitypub protocol, so they can see each other’s content, but display it in different ways.

      On Mastodon, check out @wetshaving@sub.WetShaving.social. You’ll see it’s a Mastodon feed of all the posts to that Lemmy community. You can also check out a specific user, so @souleater7173@sub.WetShaving.social will be all your Lemmy posts.

      The thing is that they don’t play nice together. So yesterday I tried tagging one of the Lemmy communities’ Mastodon account in a Mastodon post, and it created a post on Lemmy that was the text of my Mastodon post.

      So not perfect, but it is another way to watch what’s going on.

      • bmac92@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s another app on f-droid, but it hasn’t been updated in 9 months. It’s called Lemur.

    • bmac92@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      My biggest peeve with be app is that clicking on a comment reply doesn’t take you to the comment. I think just using the mobile website is currently better.

    • WegianWarrior@sub.wetshaving.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Moderating the sub I’m a moderator at have been a breeze the last couple of days :P

      Fine, honestly. There are other sites I miss more, and that disappeared for stupider reasons. Thinking of looking into Pixelfed, even though I was ever a user of instagram.

    • merikus@sub.wetshaving.socialM
      2·
      1 year ago

      Frankly, I haven’t missed it. The Lemmy keeps me busy (you all almost woke up to 10,000 Tuesday SOTD posts this morning, good thing I caught that bug at midnight last night), and I have the Mastodon. Everything else on Reddit I was doing was just random mindless scrolling.

        • HomeAwayFromHone@sub.wetshaving.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          So Lemmy and Mastodon interact with each other the same way they interact between their own instances: the ActivityPub protocol. Lemmy is geared towards Reddit-style usage and Mastodon is more similar to Twitter but ultimately both of them have users/posts/replies. Similarly, Pixelfed focuses on images more like Instagram and Peertube is more Youtube like. They all still use the same underlying mechanism, just providing a different view onto the users/posts/replies.

    • Tetriside@sub.wetshaving.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m alright. I’m Joined on a bunch of subs, but only visit a handful regularly throughout the day. It’ll be good to branch out from reddit. I spend too much time mindlessly scrolling there.