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.
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.