Don't overthink (or try to be too interesting, LOL).
dullsters @dullsters.net
I also like that's a touch more inclusive.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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Dull Men's Club
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An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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.
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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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Of course. Figured I wouldn't make it an auto-link since it doesn't exist, and may never exist.
Okay, I’ll just email you my posts then.
So I owe you a mental apology. I was all like, "why are they bein' so salty?!" I mean, yeah, it's the same format as an email address, but you'd have to copy it, open your email, paste it in... WTF dude...
then I opened this thread in Voyager.
Point taken. 😂
Oh, I wasn’t intending to sound salty. I was going for dull: Email is much more dull than the fediverse.
And, yeah, I’m using Voyager, which prompted me replying with the ! to begin with.
No worries, LOL. Strangers typing messages to each other will result in that.
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
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.
That's what I was thinking, too. Dull DIY, Dull gaming. Maybe one like Dull Work where you can share minor work wins nobody else you know would care about.
It actually increases the load, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if it helps prevent centralization.
I just found this on lemmy. I look forward to becoming duller.
Try sandpaper.
Very blunt
Thanks for the new inclusive naming.
Worldwide Federated Association of Men and Guys For Whom Life is Pretty Plain Actually
WFAOMAFFWLIPPA would be a lot simpler to remember I think.
An instance for men to discuss their issues without getting gaslit & pounded ? Good job👌
Cereal Eaters' Club
The Dull Breakfast Club
Boring Boys Brigade
my mundane
So what if someone else came up with the name "Dull Men's Club"? We can co-opt any name we want. There's no rule that says whomever says a name first on the internet gets dibs forever.
The real dull men's club has existed for 40 years, they have branding and a website.
boring buds
Average Gentlefellows
Dull Fed Fellows
Dull Hoomans Club
Just so you know, dullsters was also coined by the person who started the club. He used it to refer to members. It was submitted to the Oxford English dictionary, but I don't think it got in.
And the archive link: https://archive.md/hwzsa
There's also been a bunch of rival Facebook groups for this, I wouldn't worry too much about this one also being called the dull men's club.
I will make sure to attribute it to him, as well as being the inspiration for the community. My thought was that I'm not the owner of Dull Men's Club, I don't have permission to use the name. However, we are Dullsters here, the term isn't exclusive to Dull Men's Club. The term deserves widespread use as a new and novel word. The more it gets used the closer it gets to being an "official" word, which I think the creator of Dull Men's Club is proud of.
Conflicted.
The only thing you've done is create a competitive community, which will no doubt split the community.
If something had grown popular, and there's no reason to move, why initiate it imo.
I guess my thought process is what if two large instances defederate for whatever reason. Will people create a second account just to post here? My hope is that the community moves over to the new instance.
We have 1500 members here, how many do you think will move in the first place?
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.
I like dull. I think calling it that is a celebration of the mundane.
Everyday Life somehow sounds more boring
casual comrades