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Hello! I don't get involved in the community much (because shy), but I would consider myself as some kind of wolf.
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?
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Hi! :)
My fursona is also my username ^^
Thats a pretty nice piece of art there!
Thanks :D
very cute!
Thank you! I like how Jerboa/lemmy auto embeds the image. Refreshing, coming from reddit!
Not on Beehaw but I am a subscriber over here. My account is on Pawb
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.
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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!)
... 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
Yeah think ya got a terminal case of the pathOwOgen there bud :p
YoUwU can't be seriOwOus!
Owh NowoH DoCtOw ItS SpwEadIng ;w;
... I think I may have to stop the escalation there before it infects my internal dialogue.
You may stop for now but the seed has already been planted mwhahahaha evil thunder sounds
You monster. Even if the gods forgive you I...
Okay, I'll probably also forgive you. Eventually.
Would it help if I pulled out the finger guns as a hail mary attempt to distract from the weight of my sins?
I dunno if it would actually do anything but it feels rad to do regardless :p
I mean, there's never a bad time for
👉😎👉
POW! Gotcha first!
probably not, sorry 😔
Darn. Ah well, wouldn't be the first time I've realized I'm something well after crossing the threshold. Won't be the last.
I've moved in and out of the spaces for a while but never fully immersed, in part because I didn't feel strongly about any potential fursonas, and have a disinterest in the most popular art styles used. I've used a rat as an avatar in the past but I don't consider the rat to be representative of me so much as my artist's signature. And it's always been drawn as a cartoon rat, not an anthro rat.
I did used to draw a lot of aliens, monsters, and dragon-people though, and identify with those. It helped me feel stronger or more capable to imagine myself that way. If I ever do settle on an animal to present me online and join the furry community 'properly', it will probably end up being either a fantasy fusion, a scalie, or both.
Squawk!
i can't believe they let birds on the internet
If they banned us you'd have to get rid of your top half, and you don't want to make an ass of yourself :3
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+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
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Hello! Just exploring other instances from pawb.social!
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
Suppppppppppp :p
hello!
I'm dangerously furry, though I keep on the down-low.
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?
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I'm not active in the community anymore, so I guess that makes me furry-adjacent but, yeah.
Me kinda? I'm adjacent. I think. I've been in and out as a lurker in the fandom for the past decade or so. I still don't have a sona... mostly because I can't decide what species.
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