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[-] kittenzrulz123 86 points 2 months ago

There are four groups of people needed for any tech environment to strive, furries, femboys, Transfems, and Linux users (especially Arch btw users).

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago
[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 47 points 2 months ago

I think those are present in all previously stated categories.

[-] kittenzrulz123 15 points 2 months ago

I'm not personally a furry but I'm a genderfluid Transfem (so I guess I technically also hit the femboy box), autistic, and I use Arch btw

[-] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

okay so the furries are all in on frontend while the Linux graybeards do the low level C shit. the femboys can't get enough Rust and are somewhere in the middle doing web backends and services, the transfems like Rust too, but also weirder things like Nix or functional programming and lean more towards OS and systems type of stuff right?

i like this because it explains why the furries seem to have more visibility than the other groups, it lets each group have a little bit of space while still all being part of the same team, and honestly it matches the people i've worked with like 80-90%.

[-] mizuki 9 points 2 months ago

...you somehow described me perfectly with the transfem part

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[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I am none of the first 3, but I am totally an Linux Arch user BTW. Being a paranoid autist also helps.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am none of the first 3

Yet.

[-] kittenzrulz123 8 points 2 months ago
[-] tux7350@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

:3

You like using window managers, don't you?

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I'm confused, you just repeated the same thing 4 times??

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 52 points 2 months ago

It’s either furries or Nazis.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 86 points 2 months ago

Nazis are an invasive plant in the ecosystem. They must be eradicated for the system to thrive.

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[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

I would much rather read posts from a bunch of furries comparing notes on how to keep their costumes in yiffing condition.

[-] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago

There's actually an overlap there sometimes and I really don't get it.

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[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 months ago

All the furries are on mastodon. Not that bootlickers social media

[-] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 12 points 2 months ago

nah, the weebs have mastodon, the furries left for bsky, it was a mutual breakup. they left because it wasn't hip enough, we stayed because oh my god they're so full of themselves.

source: my avatar (weeabo) and my three intolerable roommates (furries)

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[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 months ago

I learned about furries' existence on 4chan many years ago, and I definitely don't think that site was healthy at any point in time.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 months ago

Just because the ecosystem function is not productive in anthropogenic terms, does not mean it doesn't serve a purpose.

In this case it's to keep all the btards together. It's the shrubby marsh of the internet. Smells. Shitty to be in. Get scraped up if you try walking through itm

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 23 points 2 months ago

Every functioning city has a sewer. Shits got to go somewhere.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 18 points 2 months ago

Healthy in the sense of 'being a thriving entity', not in the sense of 'being particularly good for your health'.

[-] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 16 points 2 months ago

But it did thrive, though.

[-] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 35 points 2 months ago

Yeah, makes sense. They're an online community that is famously the gateway drug for rightwing hate groups before they move onto harder stuff. "Execute the furries" into "gays are bad" is basically a core part of the rightwinger life cycle

[-] EldritchFeminity 15 points 2 months ago

There's a major overlap between the two groups anyway, so hatred of one is often an easy sign of hatred of the other.

That, and how many furries are in tech related fields says a lot about the health of an online system. If the furries don't want anything to do with it, then it must have an issue of some kind.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I reconnected with some friends I haven't talked to much since covid. I was making fun of how Meta couldn't figure out VR legs at the same time that the furries figured out digitigrade legs and somehow they didn't pickup that I wasn't making fun of furries and one started complaining about furries. Fucking weird that they occupy their headspace like that despite never interacting with them irl.

One of them was also complaining about his comics being blacklisted on various sites for politics when really, his art just sucks and hasn't gotten any better in the decades he's been doing it. The other was complaining about woke games he doesn't have a system to play them with anyway. If you spend more the 30 seconds clowning on Forspoken, you have issues.

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[-] riwo 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

this claim might seem logical on the surface, but from an outside perspective, we can observe that bluesky is only as much a healthy eco system as for example a zoo is.

therefore, furries on their own can in fact not be a clear indicator for a healthy eco system.

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

The whole meme about them running the Internet is their own in joke too. Seems similar to when conservatives claim to be a silent majority.

[-] HatchetHaro 28 points 2 months ago

it's actually more of a tech industry in-joke than a furry in-joke. it's also at least somewhat based in truth.

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

That's close to my point. The subculture is so small there will be far more non-furries spreading the memes than actual furries. They started within the group though. A guy wearing his suit to work on Halloween then talking about it on social media is what started this particular one about them running the internet.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

my grandma once told me "hey [irl name] did you know there are people at your school who think they're cats 😳" I barely held in my laughter

[-] HEXN3T 21 points 2 months ago

Butterflies, eh? Is this a metaphor?

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

It's either a fairy cosplay, or a moth fursuit.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago

If it is, I'm not aware of it.

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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So where are the lemmy furries? And are any into lemmings?

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago

I think pawb.social is a furry instance, but I'm not sure if they federate with .ml or not.

I think there's also a yiff instance or two out there, too.

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Damn right

(Browse here at your own risk)

.ml is supposed to have defederated with us, but I have been seeing .ml sometimes recently, so maybe not anymore.

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[-] Foxfire@pawb.social 14 points 2 months ago

Hello from pawb.social! Honestly don't recall even seeing an anthro lemming before to be honest. I'm sure they're out there, maybe just not a common species people draw though.

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[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 12 points 2 months ago

There's a couple. One of them actually went dark suddenly and recently, which is a little concerning but it's probably just DDOS attacks.

Unfortunately I don't know if any of them are using lemmings in their banner, though I'm suddenly very disappointed in my own instance for choosing a hyena.

[-] HatchetHaro 7 points 2 months ago

yeens are like the stereotypical non-obvious choice for a furry species.

[-] noxy@yiffit.net 11 points 2 months ago

(dog noises)

[-] cadekat@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

And are any into lemmings?

Now that's a fine game I loved as a kid

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

It's like how when Morn leaves your bar you know the party is over.

[-] uriel238 9 points 2 months ago

So I realized that the sexy aliens trope is only plausible if either we just colonized a lot of other worlds, and are just boffing with humans who've been on other worlds for a while, or (more likely) captured aliens and made genetically engineered versions that fit better into human society (which included making them super-fuckable).

This is how you get aliens in which the females are shorter, slighter with more rounded features and boobs. Contrast the whole of the zoological catalog on earth.

But we humans want aliens we can have sex with.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I chose "cackle uncontrollably."

[-] LordBelphegor@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago
[-] EldritchFeminity 8 points 2 months ago

In its own way, I'd say. I saw a poll recently asking people when they made their account, and it seems that the majority of users have been on there since the 2010s. All the toxic users left for Twitter after the porn ban, and that seems to have really chilled out the site.

Modern Tumblr reminds me of Lemmy in a lot of ways. Less tech oriented, but would rather burn the site to the ground than see it become one of the modern corporate social media sites. "Become unmarketable" seems to have become the guiding motto there.

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