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)
Just your average horse boy here. Don’t mind me.
hello!
+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
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.
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.
Not enough
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
Plus if all those furries working in tech just went poof, then the internet would probably collapse!
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”.
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?
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
… 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 😔
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.
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
Suppppppppppp :p
hello!
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
Hello! Just exploring other instances from pawb.social! Edit: Larger version of my avatar, by Animal_shapes.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
Hello birb! My younger sister drew this for me for my birthday. Closest thing I have for a sona so I use it as my profile picture. My actual sona I’m dreaming up is anthro hawk, of course. I haven’t come out as a furry yet so she is probably the only person IRL who knows, or has a strong hunch. My affinity for birds of prey is already well known however.
I’ve had a cautionary interest in furries for a few years not knowing if I wanted to dive into it. Then last year I found the SlimeVR community, started playing VRChat, and immediately discovered how many of them are furries, and, how fun it is! Now I’m really interested in joining the broader furry community but anxious about it (the hawk’s expression is very fitting ngl).
Has a furry community on Beehaw been considered? I don’t know enough to decide if it is necessary or not based on the number of people here. I think Creative would suffice so long as those browsing there aren’t bothered by it. But I wonder if furries are already hesitant to post to general art places in case it isn’t received as well. I want to see all the furry OC’s and artwork people have to share here, but I also understand that turning half the posts on Creative into furry content could get annoying to those who don’t want to go there for that. Then maybe if they abandon it instead, Creative would turn into everything furry anyways. But I just don’t know if any of that is accurate! This requires discussion from people far more experienced than me.
I might join pawb.social too, but I like how with Beehaw the communities are organized on broad topics and not specific niches, and I seriously jive with the philosophy write-ups and community moderation.
I’m not active in the community anymore, so I guess that makes me furry-adjacent but, yeah.
