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 ;)
That sounds like way too much effort for me.
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
Worldwide Federated Association of Men and Guys For Whom Life is Pretty Plain Actually
WFAOMAFFWLIPPA would be a lot simpler to remember I think.
01189998819991197253
I'm a simple man. I see IT Crowd, I upvote
Average Gentlefellows
Lol
Just the word "Vanilla"
boring beings bar
Boring Boys Brigade
Average Guys' Gang
plain jane jamboree
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.
casual comrades
my mundane
Mundane mUSERS
'Dullards United'?
Simple_Satisfactions
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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Musings of Mediocre Men
Mehn
And Womehn.
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
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Average joes
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?
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.
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Yay new instance!
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