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[Meta] THE TIME HAS COME. Daily posts will be transitioned to PieFed.

8 months ago by walden to c/wetshaving

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Edit: TLDR; please subscribe to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing. This Lemmy community isn't going anywhere, but the daily posts won't be here going forward.

First, I'd like to thank you all for keeping the wetshaving fediverse active with interesting and delightful content! We are approaching the 1000th daily SOTD thread since the inception of the wetshaving Lemmy, and during those 1000 days a lot has changed!

Scrolling through this post it's evident that most of our users have switched to PieFed. In observing this trend, I believe it's an acceptable time to switch things up.

What do I need to do?

Ensure that you are subscribed to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing. You can still use Lemmy of course, as the activity will federate.

Hint for PieFed users

If you're using PieFed, there's also a Topic that I've built available here. A topic is a group of related communities. You can't edit Topics, but you can use the topic to create your own "Feed" of wetshaving stuff. Just thought I'd mention the option.

What will change?

Daily SOTD threads will begin to be posted to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing in the coming days. !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social will continue to exist.

Free Talk Friday posts will begin to be posted to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing in the coming days.

When will it happen?

Just as soon as I sit down and make the changes. Ideally you won't even notice since federation is slick and refined at this point. I will make a sticky post on !wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social directing people towards !wetshaving@wetshav.ing when it's done.

Don't like it? Sound off in the comments!

Did I miss something? Any big downsides that I haven't considered? Let me know below!

FWAaron 6 points 8 months ago

As I just don't feel like creating a piefed account if I don't have to, I ought to be able to comment over there with this account right?

Took a bit of effort getting my account to "see" the piefed wetshaving community but eventually I got it to.

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walden 3 points 8 months ago

You can 100% just keep using your lemmy.world account!

The reason why you probably didn't see anything after subscribing to !wetshaving@wetshav.ing is because there's not much activity there (yet). When you subscribe to something using Lemmy, the Lemmy software doesn't really go back in time and show you older stuff.

I just made a post over there if you want to make sure it's showing up in your feed.

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FWAaron 4 points 8 months ago

It sure is!

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walden 3 points 8 months ago

Also to-do:

  1. Consider where to hold BVWSC voting activity.
  2. Update the sidebar information to bring it up-to-date

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merikus 3 points 8 months ago

Is there a way to subscribe to a Topic?

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walden 3 points 8 months ago

Excellent question. Topics and Feeds, to my knowledge work like this:

Topic : can only be created and edited by admins (maybe moderators, too?). Designed to help new people find communities to subscribe to without being a free-for-all. For example when I created the "Wetshaving" Topic, I didn't include one or two wetshaving themed communities found elsewhere on the Fediverse because those places are barren, so they aren't worth following in my opinion.

Feed: A feed is created by, used by, and only visible to a particular user. You can use a Topic as a template of sorts... so if you want to follow the same shaving communities that I've curated in the wetshaving Topic, you'd visit that topic (Explore -> Topics -> Wetshaving) and click Create feed.

I had a brief conversation with the PieFed developers today because I was trying to wrap my head around it, and it's a bit buggy and convoluted at the moment. But hey, it works.

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merikus 1 point 8 months ago

Cool, thanks for the info!

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FWAaron 3 points 7 months ago

Testing cause it looks like my server (lemmy.world) is having issues. seeing if maybe it's specific to piefed or the wetshaving piefed server

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FWAaron 2 points 7 months ago

looks like it probably is one of those scenarios! hmm

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walden 1 point 7 months ago

Working on my end. I can see these comments both on Lemmy and PieFed .

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FWAaron 1 point 7 months ago

it's not letting me post on the piefed server. I can see wetshav.ing, can see posts thrre, can like posts, just can't comment at the moment.

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merikus 1 point 8 months ago

Thought: should we have a DQT or WQT here on piefed?

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walden 2 points 8 months ago

Daily is too often. Weekly would require each post to be pinned so it doesn't get downed out by other threads. I know how to pin automatically created threads, but automatically unpinning the old post when a new one is made would require research on my part.

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merikus 1 point 8 months ago

Agreed on the daily thing. No idea about pinning or unpinning though.

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walden 2 points 8 months ago

I would just have to automate it to:

  1. Make the weekly post -- easy enough
  2. Parse the response and log the post number (for example in the URL of this post (not this comment, the post) it says 84851. I can store that string in a text file.
  3. One week later, fire off an API call to unpin that post number.

Doable? Yes. Will I do it? Maybe.

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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.

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