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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.

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[โ€“] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

PieFed (https://wetshav.ing/) has been running smoothly from what I can tell.

Fun fact, since the images are handled differently than Lemmy and I still want to keep them in an object storage bucket, I was forced to learn how to route everything through Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a corporation and is therefore evil in some eyes, but it does come with a lot of free features that prevent being spammed by AI bots, for example.

Lemmy sometimes suffers from AI bot attacks (at least I think that's what causes the slowdowns). In the future I'd like to get Lemmy routed through Cloudflare as well, but I'll need @djundjilla's help.

[โ€“] PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Piefed works well! Feels much snappier than Lemmy.

[โ€“] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're in Europe, right? I would have thought PieFed would be slower since the server is in the USA. Lemmy is in Finland.

Yes, I am in Europe. Lemmy still feels slowers

[โ€“] DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 month ago

PieFed does run smoothly and everything is loaded very fast.

Cloudflare has a few critiques, but if the alternative is AI bots and DDoS attacks I think it's the better alternative. Just look at how vanilla YT comment sections look nowadays. You can't say certain words but the spambots for crude scams run rampant. I really hope the Fediverse finds a good way to combat this and if Cloudflare is part of the solution, so be it. They also work with Mozilla, so they can't be totally evil IMHO.