From: bonkyboo@canithesis.org   
      
   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.   
      
   I try to stay on XMPP/Jabber these days. I can't always, because of the   
   network effect, but I really try.   
      
   Like Matrix/Signal but older, easier to find people on (to a degree   
   anyway) and doesn't have all of the horrendous design flaws of Matrix.   
      
   And I would be hardpressed to call Discord "superior" to Mumble,   
   considering it can't be self-hosted with your own free reign and   
   whatever useful features it lacks can be replaced by XMPP and IRC.   
      
   Just my opinion though   
      
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