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Dull Men's Club

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An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.

https://dullmensclub.com/

1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.

2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.

3. Avoid repetitive topics.

4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.

There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.

Some other communities to consider before posting:

5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.

6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.

7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.

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I created a Lemmy instance and the future of this community. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by PriorityMotif@lemmy.world to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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I've created a new Lemmy instance at dullsters.net

When I created this community several months ago I had no aspirations of it becoming much of anything. In a short amount of time it has grown to over 1500 subscribers and is one of the top recommended non-political communities. I am always looking forward to the posts that are shared here, and the unique culture being developed.

I see the importance of the decentralized aspect of the Fediverse. We frequently see drama surrounding moderation and federation policies. None of that applies to the content in this community.

I have no qualms with admins running their site the way they want to and they are often placed in difficult positions. However, this is one of the true places of neutrality on the Fediverse and it should remain that way.

In the few months this community has existed there have been maybe a half dozen moderation actions taken. You have remained, for the most part, very dull, and I thank you for that.

The name of the community should be changed, I hadn't realized that dull men's club was the result of someone else's ideas and work. The new name should represent this community that you all have created and the place it exists, The Fediverse.

The new instance won't have any users except for the purpose of moderation, you will still use your account from a federated instance. I'm still ironing out a few wrinkles with the site, it should be done whenever I get around to it.

In the meantime suggestions for the new name should be made in a top level comment so that they can be voted on.

Thank you all once again for making this community what it is.

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Don't overthink (or try to be too interesting, LOL).

dullsters @dullsters.net

I also like that's a touch more inclusive.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course. Figured I wouldn't make it an auto-link since it doesn't exist, and may never exist.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, I’ll just email you my posts then.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dull Fed Fellows

[–] moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I like this one (although there are some really good ideas here!). It's a spin on the original name and unique to the Fediverse. Also not everything needs to be inclusive. It's just a place meant for guys to shoot the shit. Changing the name that way would take away from the comedy imo. And anyway you can pose as a dull man on the internet, who's gonna know? Lol ;)

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

On one hand it feels weird that a whole instance should be spun off for this. On the other I just say fuck it, decentralization helps spread the load.

Cool to see this happen and I'll be following on how it turns out

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

It actually increases the load, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if it helps prevent centralization.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But now we can branch it off and have like a dull gardening community and a dull cooking one, a place for people to say something they've done today that was dull but worthwhile, the dullness is endless.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

'Dullards United'?

[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Mehn

And Womehn.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

boring buds

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

boring beings bar

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds like way too much effort for me.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

The Mensfed

There’s the concept of a “men’s shed” where old blokes hang out and work on projects and keep social so this is like a version of that but on the fediverse.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

plain jane jamboree

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I understand why it's called as such, but I'm not really a fan of the community being called 'dull', as I've found quite a few of the posts pretty interesting. Maybe I too am just dull, lol.

Maybe something like "Everyday Life" would be a good fit.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I like dull. I think calling it that is a celebration of the mundane.

Everyday Life somehow sounds more boring

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Simple folks

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Cereal Eaters' Club

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Average joes

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Worldwide Federated Association of Men and Guys For Whom Life is Pretty Plain Actually

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

WFAOMAFFWLIPPA would be a lot simpler to remember I think.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

01189998819991197253

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm a simple man. I see IT Crowd, I upvote

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yay new instance!

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Musings of Mediocre Men

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Average Gentlefellows

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's offline at the moment

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm still making changes getting things ready and whatnot. It's a bit of a learning curve.

[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Normally Well-Fed.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

casual comrades