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.
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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:
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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...
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.
boring buds
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.
boring beings bar
Mehn
And Womehn.
plain jane jamboree
Musings of Mediocre Men
my mundane
Mundane mUSERS
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.
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.
I like dull. I think calling it that is a celebration of the mundane.
Everyday Life somehow sounds more boring
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.
Ah I see. Good luck, you'll get there :3
Simple_Satisfactions
Simple folks
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.
Average joes
casual comrades
Yay new instance!
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?
The Mensfed
There’s the concept of a “men’s shed” where old blokes hang out and work on projects and keep social so this is like a version of that but on the fediverse.