From: FrigidFoxtrot@protonmail.com   
      
   Furry has spread out a lot since the days of IRC, MUCKs, and AFF.   
      
   Where are you seeing folks congregate nowadays?   
      
   Here's the landscape as I see it.   
      
   +--------------+   
   | Chat clients |   
   +--------------+   
   - Discord, but seems to mostly be popular with the gaming-oriented   
   crowd. This makes sense, considering it got started as a superior   
   alternative to teamspeak / mumble.   
   - Telegram, killer feature is the stickers. Killed Skype because it   
   wasn't neglected by its developers. Feels like almost everyone has a   
   telegram nowadays.   
   - Signal. Trying to replace telegram, but adoption rates have been   
   rather slow. The main advantage is the E2E encryption, so the only folks   
   migrating are the ones who care about this in particular.   
      
   +--------+   
   | Forums |   
   +--------+   
   - Reddit's /r/furry, mostly images. Doesn't seem to have much if any   
   discussion nowadays.   
   - Reddit's /r/furry_irl, mostly memes. Seems more lively than /r/furry.   
   - AFF is, of course, still clinging to life.   
      
   +------+   
   | MU*s |   
   +------+   
   - FurryMuck still exists. Logged in last summer and saw a few hundred   
   folks online.   
   - Tapestries seems to be lively as well. Saw 500 accounts online when I   
   hopped on this evening.   
   - Secondlife exists, though I only know one person who still logs in.   
   - VRChat is the clear successor in all of this, utterly massive platform   
   with lots to do. Seemed to come into its own when the pandemic forced   
   everyone to get their social energy from the internet.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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