From: danskunk@hotmail.com   
      
   On 28/04/2025 1:56 p.m., Brian W. Antoine wrote:   
   > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:28:31 -0000 (UTC), Stone Fox  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-04-14, FrigidFoxtrot  wrote:   
   >>> On 4/7/2025 9:20 PM, Stone Fox wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-04-06, FrigidFoxtrot  wrote:   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is my client messed up or did your reply get gobbled?   
   >>   
   >> My client is messed up. I wrote a response, sent it, and then later learned   
   >> nothing was sent. I abandoned this thread after that in fear my client   
   >> would mess it up further.   
   >   
   > YiffNet has been on Discord for years, and even IRC until nobody was using   
   > it.  Not the busiest of channels, unless you trigger some memory in one of   
   > the old farts. :)   
   I'm still on an active IRC channel.   
      
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