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TL;DR:  Let’s try to be less interesting!

Hello from your mod team (seems like just me, if you’re interested in being a mod ping me)!

I’ve noticed that things have been getting pretty interesting around here lately and we need to tone that back a little.  The goal of this community is to share things that aren’t particularly interesting that you come across. 

Yes, “interesting” is very subjective, but I think we need to go back to our roots and consider what brought us all here… we wanted to be mildly interested.

Also, this isn’t a place for politics.  There are many other communities for that, let’s keep it there.  

Here are a couple great examples of what I feel we should strive for: 

https://lemmy.world/post/34363323

https://lemmy.world/post/34336673

That’s all for now, thanks for your support and understanding.

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What if luck isn’t random? (news.stanford.edu)
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The history of Twister (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by siliconspoke@mander.xyz to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51421665

Edit: Next one (1888888888) is in 4 years :-)

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Gentleman whipped out his instrument and just started playing (beautifully).

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Dam it (sh.itjust.works)

Mildly interesting loop

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Who knew there was a championship in flat packing.

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all photographed in a time span of 10 years

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Captured by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on March 14, 2025.

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Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf.

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blue-banded Blood Moon

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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