From: john@late.com   
      
   On 5/5/2025 5:35 PM, Dan Skunk wrote:   
   > 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.   
   You should tell the audience which is it   
      
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