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.
Cereal Eaters’ Club
The Dull Breakfast Club
So just The Breakfast Club, got it
jk, I never saw that.
Nice
Average Guys’ Gang
That sounds like way too much effort for me.
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.
casual comrades
boring buds
Simple folks
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.
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.
Just the word “Vanilla”
deleted by creator
Boring Boys Brigade
my mundane
Mundane mUSERS
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
For anyone who wants to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU
Average Gentlefellows
Lol
Yay new instance!
