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Furries need to get on the Fediverse
Posted a year agoCorporate internet is a garbage fire. No free service stays good forever. It always ends up with "sponsored content" everywhere, and an algorithm stuffing it down your throat.
The fediverse aims to replace the for-profit juggernauts with a mosaic of small, community-run sites that all connect (federate) to each other.
If the server you singed up for turns to crap, you can easily move to a better one. Running a server is actually really cheap if you don't have investors demanding you squeeze more money our of your users. Most sites are financed by the occasional passing of the hat, like your local PBS station.
Mastodon is the most common sort of server, but it's bigger than that. I can follow someone's Pixelfed account using my Mastodon account. Or even a Lemmy or Kbin community.
There are loads of furry-themed Fediverse servers. I was gonna make a guide to them, but it turns out someone else already did.
https://www.furryfediverse.org/
Pick one that sounds cool and get started.
The fediverse aims to replace the for-profit juggernauts with a mosaic of small, community-run sites that all connect (federate) to each other.
If the server you singed up for turns to crap, you can easily move to a better one. Running a server is actually really cheap if you don't have investors demanding you squeeze more money our of your users. Most sites are financed by the occasional passing of the hat, like your local PBS station.
Mastodon is the most common sort of server, but it's bigger than that. I can follow someone's Pixelfed account using my Mastodon account. Or even a Lemmy or Kbin community.
There are loads of furry-themed Fediverse servers. I was gonna make a guide to them, but it turns out someone else already did.
https://www.furryfediverse.org/
Pick one that sounds cool and get started.
MFM 2011 pictures!
Posted 14 years agoI went a whole year without posting here? Well, here's this year's crop of pictures.
https://picasaweb.google.com/wells......eat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/wells......eat=directlink
Pictures from MFM!
Posted 15 years agoWho is Strangething?
Posted 17 years agoOver on the MySpace, I discovered I can put my friends into groups. I made a gamers group, and a furry group. Pretty much everyone I know falls into one or the other. Only one person was in both categories. My life is so compartmentalized. Many of my closest friends don't know I'm a furry.
In fact, I'm an O. G. furry from back in the day. My first exposure to the fandom was alt.fan.furry. That's right, Usenet. Long before it got eaten by Google Groups. Before there was a Google, for that matter. It was FurNation (Closing its doors the end of this month!) that got me into the fandom for good. (A story for another day.) I had a FurryMuck character back before Second Life started eating its breakfast. The only furries more old school than me are the ones who read Albedo when it was new.
It doesn't really count, though. I wandered in and out of the fandom over the years. Many times I've told myself that it's silly, and there's no reason to lurk on furry forums. Then MFM rolls around, and I can't stand to stay away.
I never really had a full time persona. For a while, I was a lizard named "Sarrathos". (It's still my Yahoo ID.) My reptile thing comes and goes. About once a year I say, "Screw this cold-blooded scaly BS, I'm gonna play something fuzzy and cute!" but it never lasts.
This is a bit blasphemous to the diehards. For most furries, the central mark of furry identity is having one persona and sticking with it. I say I have the shapeshifter nature. Sounds better than being indecisive.
It was around this time I thought up the name "Strangething". I didn't want to be anything in particular. I wanted to be like nothing else on Earth. I've come to like the name. More than once, I've met someone in person for the first time, and they said "You're Strangething!" and gave me a big hug. Positive reinforcement.
In fact, I'm an O. G. furry from back in the day. My first exposure to the fandom was alt.fan.furry. That's right, Usenet. Long before it got eaten by Google Groups. Before there was a Google, for that matter. It was FurNation (Closing its doors the end of this month!) that got me into the fandom for good. (A story for another day.) I had a FurryMuck character back before Second Life started eating its breakfast. The only furries more old school than me are the ones who read Albedo when it was new.
It doesn't really count, though. I wandered in and out of the fandom over the years. Many times I've told myself that it's silly, and there's no reason to lurk on furry forums. Then MFM rolls around, and I can't stand to stay away.
I never really had a full time persona. For a while, I was a lizard named "Sarrathos". (It's still my Yahoo ID.) My reptile thing comes and goes. About once a year I say, "Screw this cold-blooded scaly BS, I'm gonna play something fuzzy and cute!" but it never lasts.
This is a bit blasphemous to the diehards. For most furries, the central mark of furry identity is having one persona and sticking with it. I say I have the shapeshifter nature. Sounds better than being indecisive.
It was around this time I thought up the name "Strangething". I didn't want to be anything in particular. I wanted to be like nothing else on Earth. I've come to like the name. More than once, I've met someone in person for the first time, and they said "You're Strangething!" and gave me a big hug. Positive reinforcement.
