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the only thing i wanna know about furries is where do they get their cool socks. they have the coolest socks

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I do like that they're mostly on a handful of instances here, you just block the furry porn ones and you're good.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 15 points 2 days ago

The "furry porn instance" I assume you're referring to shut down, unfortunately, but you can always just block the few communities actively dedicated to it, just like we do with lemmynsfw and its derivative communities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is honestly partly why I had to just block NSFW.

Typically I don't care, to each their own, but man it was thick with furry porn. Also the questionable anime pictures and porn in general was dense. Overall I couldn't keep up.

I like porn, but not when I'm scrolling Lemmy.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Being able to block at the instance level is awesome, there's like six instances and you're done.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Why would you block it?

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago

Nah. They are on Discord and Telegram too, but it doesn’t mean those are free/open platforms. It just means the platform has been grown large enough that can attract diverse species.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why would anyone care about furry stuff showing up on your feed? Whatever, bruv.

I've recently been getting into a furry comic that I really like called "I Think I Like You". I'm not a furry, but they typically have some awesome SFW artwork.

Also, I work in IT. Furries are basically synonymous with IT people a lot of the time and are generally pretty cool people. I don't get the hate.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 13 points 2 days ago

There's something about bsky's discovery algorithm that makes it nearly unusable for me. I've been to furry conventions, live in a prominent furry city, and have furry friends. I'm furry adjacent. I wouldn't mind average fun furry content appearing on that algorithm. I only get furry diaper and inflation fetish stuff. I could see if I followed a bunch of furries that posted or interacted with that. I'm only aware of one who probably even would but I don't think it's just from one guy's influence.

No matter how many times I press "show me less like this" and mute the accounts, it doesn't slow it down. I'm convinced "show me less like this" and "show me more like this" are just made backwards.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

The only time I have had issues with furry content was the early days of Lemmy where NSFW furry content was quite prevalent on most feeds.

I don’t actually care much, but when it was 30% of the feed it did get annoying…

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 days ago

They are everywhere even on the worst sites possible. But it is funny to think as a core part of an internet ecosystem.

Tech furries good species. Art furries good species. Nazi furries invasive species.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

There are apparently a bunch of furries at my workplace. Agreed that it's a good sign.

[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Where do you work coz I'm loosing faith in the tech industry and want to find my love for technology again.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't feel like doxxing myself, sorry

[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Lol no worries dude sorry, was supposed to be a joke I guess text is not the best way to have expressed it.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Especially if you can't spell "losing"

[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's almost like I acknowledge I fuck up spelling things by using a specific username.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea my manager is like that too.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -2 points 2 days ago

Þe secret is to not look for it in þe tech industry, but in þe FOSS community.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does it snow a lot where you live?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It’s all good. I’m just yanking your noodle. 😊

~Edit: ok that sounded funnier in my head, but in retrospect a bit something else… 😂~

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago
[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago

Is it like a tsunami is approaching. All the dogs go crazy and seak higher ground.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Furries on the internet? Who ever heard of such a thing?

someone needs to rewrite that song as The Internet is for Furries

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

The TV show CSI would say otherwise about that.

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

By this metric, duo, the '4chan dating app', has the most healthy and thriving, small, dense microclimate tech ecosystem that has ever existed.

Furries stride proudly, standing head and shoulders above the plentiful packs of graceful femboys, whom they herd forcefully, yet fairly.

Incomprehensible memes, drenched in unending layers of irony, form the basis, the strata upon which grows the verdant, fertile fields of brand new, novel mental illnesses upon which the fauna not only gorge themselves, but also adorn themselves with, and celebrate... or mourn.

Crossing the boundaries of national borders, those of the Beautiful Prince (Dis)order command adoration effortlessly with their bespoke custom cosplays and hara juku outfits; they find themselves as newly crowned regents of armies of willing, but undesired simps and thralls.

In the background, in the shade, ever present, but not loudly so, the Autists amuse themselves with trying to make sense of it all, to be able to explain and understand all that they see... they know this goal likely unattainable, but this matters not, for it is the pursuit from which they derive amusement and awe.

Incels, femcels, queers, straights, cis and trans, bed rotting goblin things, newly awakened vampires, graduated former V Tubers, proud fans of incest and... a few people who seem almost normal by comparison:

None, really, are welcome here.

But all are present, in the unique, and exotic people zoo... that is Duo.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What’s with people and corporate owned social media platforms?

Were furries the “sheeple” all along? 🧐

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the barrier to entry.

Spinning up your own social media platform is pretty easy in the grand scheme of things, but populating that platform is challenging. Doubly so if you want the platform to have topics beyond how good Linux is.

Furries have managed to carve out their own spaces on basically every platform and develped a subculture all on the outskirts of mainstream social media

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Doubly so if you want the platform to have topics beyond how good Linux is.

We're getting there, slowly.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

I was there, Gandalf. Two years and three months ago when !selfhosted was the largest Lemmy community.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We can talk about the news here too now!

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Yep. Sometimes we talk about stuff happening outside the US even.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Brand recognition, I think.

I'm thinking we shouldn't market the fediverse as a concept, but rather individual instances which are good and meet a particular audience's needs and then tack on "you van still talk to people on other sites" later on in the pitch

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Honestly not a bad idea.

It’s just so sad to me that something as simple as picking an instance is so difficult and scary to people that it’s a roadblock at all.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

They're onto something.

4chan has furries

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I choose "cackle uncontrollably."

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago

Such a sweet analogy