Don't overthink (or try to be too interesting, LOL).
dullsters @dullsters.net
I also like that's a touch more inclusive.
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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.
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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Of course. Figured I wouldn't make it an auto-link since it doesn't exist, and may never exist.
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Dull Fed Fellows
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 ;)
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.
boring buds
That sounds like way too much effort for me.
Worldwide Federated Association of Men and Guys For Whom Life is Pretty Plain Actually
WFAOMAFFWLIPPA would be a lot simpler to remember I think.
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I'm a simple man. I see IT Crowd, I upvote
Average Gentlefellows
boring beings bar
Just the word "Vanilla"
Average Guys' Gang
plain jane jamboree
Boring Boys Brigade
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.
my mundane
Mundane mUSERS
Musings of Mediocre Men
Simple_Satisfactions
Mehn
And Womehn.
For name ideas:
prattle: idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
It evokes the spirit of doddering, dull, old fashioned men but without being specifically gendered or referring to any other brand.
Or,
Perhaps a little long and I've never seen the League of Extraordinary Gentleman so I don't even know if it's irrelevant or deeply inappropriate but it has a pleasant ring to it
Or,
Follows in the spirit of mildy... communities which is generic and not tied to any specific brand
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
as I’ve found quite a few of the posts pretty interesting.
As has been suggested by @[email protected] - you can have a mildlydull community for things that are just a bit too racey for some.
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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.
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Simple folks
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.
casual comrades
Average joes
Yay new instance!
It's offline at the moment
Yeah, I'm still making changes getting things ready and whatnot. It's a bit of a learning curve.
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If it was about ex-ussr countries, I could've suggested 'Me and my carpet', since wall carpets were a default sign of doing good back then and many photoes even now have them in the beckground. It's a part of our nostalgic aesthetics and a sign of a boomer old-timers cringe if used out of context. Is there some international alternative to that?
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