i’m sure my icon speaks for itself here, but i’ve definitely seen a few of you skittering about in some of our threads. show yourselves at once! maybe post your fursona even (if it’s safe for work)

  • woteorin@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    … 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

  • NullEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Not on Beehaw but I am a subscriber over here. My account is on Pawb

  • SavvyWolf@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Hello! I don’t get involved in the community much (because shy), but I would consider myself as some kind of wolf.

  • WahotsEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Hi! :)

    My fursona is also my username ^^

  • CapydeevEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Hello! Just exploring other instances from pawb.social! Edit: Larger version of my avatar, by Animal_shapes.

  • wintrparkgrl@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Entry level furry. If it’s a character I like, I might do the deed to them but I don’t seek it out outside of that

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      as i’ve noted before furries are the vanguard of any successful online community so any niche you can find them in is probably a stable one

      • Moneymunkie@beehaw.orgEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        Plus if all those furries working in tech just went poof, then the internet would probably collapse!

      • winterstillness@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        It really comes down to having a “place” to engage in. I don’t think beehaw/lemmy has a furry community yet. This is further complicated with “art” (which I understand, hosting+moderation). One of the things I’ll miss from reddit is those communities. Granted, I was lurking more for the “art”.

  • wispikat@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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…

    • WahotsEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      There’s also pawbs.social and furry technologists on here :)

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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

        • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          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.

          • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Gotcha. I remember the content warnings being a bit odd on there. Perhaps on a future platform or platform iteration, CW’s can be a built-in feature perhaps by tag. Then users could opt or in to those contents, or cover it with warnings before display.

      • wispikat@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        mmmmm that does ring some bells. i hadn’t really delved into it at the time, and i’d heard tales of drama… (which might be the reason for the former!)

  • pridefulofbeing@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m not. I’ve always been curious about how people learn about it, realize they’re a furry, etc.

    What’s your story of how you became a furry? What does it mean to you?

    • Moneymunkie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Think I joined and made a fursona around 2018 but I’d thought they were pretty neat ages before. I think I took the plunge since the community appeared to be very friendly as was quite LGBT positive and I was looking for somewhere to make some friends. Went to a meet at the city closest to me and then boom, here I be :D

  • mtset@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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?