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.
Don’t overthink (or try to be too interesting, LOL).
dullsters @dullsters.net
I also like that’s a touch more inclusive.
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…
then I opened this thread 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.
Could you check to see if it’s working?
Seems to be working fine, and I subscribed via the ‘!’ Lemmylink.
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
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.
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 ;)
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’m not sure, it might be none,it might be more, we’ll see i suppose.
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.
That sounds like way too much effort for me.
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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.
‘Dullards United’?
I was thinking about dullards, although it doesn’t actually mean someone who is dull.
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Mehn
And Womehn.
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