I guess I'm a furry? I have a furaffinity account but I'm not really active
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hello, i'm a relatively new furry haha. my main sona is a bat, though i also have a goat and a snow leopard that i often switch between. currently they just exist as different avatars on secondlife, since i can't draw to save my life.
HI!! I'm doggogirl
more dogs on beehaw you lvoe to see it
I go woof 😎
Holy shit no way me too
Woof woof~ 🥺
have furries been thriving on the fediverse all this time?! eg, mastodon. i legitimately feel like I've noticed a furry "void" in my usual internet spaces for a few years...
There's also pawbs.social and furry technologists on here :)
thanks :3
there does seem to be a dearth of them around here and a lot of that probably has to do with the explosion of the mastodon instance snouts.online a few years back and a generally bad experience with mastodon many furries (at least in my circles) had back around 2019-2020
What experiences?
it's been years now but just the generally, for lack of better term, "wokescold"-y or "shitlib"-y vibe of mastodon did a lot of that. the community felt extremely overbearing at times with content warnings and social norms, in a way that especially didn't vibe with groups that are repressed and want to talk about those experiences. a lot of it was of course just technically confusing for some people, as was trying to leverage network effects to stick with your friends. some people--artists especially--had specific needs that were hard to meet with migration. and the whole process in general was haphazard and over time as people settled inevitably mastodon politics also got in the way of it, what with defederation being an option and all.
eventually i think it just burned a lot of people out on the platform in a way that has really precluded swathes of the furry community from setting up shop on another federated place, to avoid something like that happening again.
... Do I still get to claim I'm merely "fandom adjacent" if I've crafted several 'sonas and have actively played as them in various media? Asking for a friend. :P
probably not, sorry 😔
Hi! I'm not super deep into the furry community but I do know a lot of furries and I'm in the process of getting my fursona some better-developed art, so I guess I count?
Love the red avatar by the way, transistor absolutely rules :)
Thanks!! I love her, very powerful vibes :)
Squawk!
+1 here, funnily. But only kind of? Kinda associated with the community when I was younger, grew a little away from it but still consider myself one? Just happy to be a dog on the internet I suppose haha
probably half of the coolest people i know are also dogs on the internet so this may be an intrinsic property of being one
That's a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day