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There are four groups of people needed for any tech environment to strive, furries, femboys, Transfems, and Linux users (especially Arch btw users).
autism too
I think those are present in all previously stated categories.
I’m not personally a furry but I’m a genderfluid Transfem (so I guess I technically also hit the femboy box), autistic, and I use Arch btw
okay so the furries are all in on frontend while the Linux graybeards do the low level C shit. the femboys can’t get enough Rust and are somewhere in the middle doing web backends and services, the transfems like Rust too, but also weirder things like Nix or functional programming and lean more towards OS and systems type of stuff right?
i like this because it explains why the furries seem to have more visibility than the other groups, it lets each group have a little bit of space while still all being part of the same team, and honestly it matches the people i’ve worked with like 80-90%.
…you somehow described me perfectly with the transfem part
Same. I feel utterly exposed
I am none of the first 3, but I am totally an Linux Arch user BTW. Being a paranoid autist also helps.
I am none of the first 3
Yet.
Which WM do you use :3
:3
You like using window managers, don’t you?
Filthy things. They kind of want to be used, don’t they?
Maybe :3
I guess KWin since I use KDE Plasma.
Booooo
I’m confused, you just repeated the same thing 4 times??
:3
I’m just an asshole.
It’s either furries or Nazis.
Nazis are an invasive plant in the ecosystem. They must be eradicated for the system to thrive.
Bad analogy because invasive plants all come from an ecosystem where they’re not problematic. Like, kudzu is fine in its native habitat.
Nazis are more like toxic waste - not good anywhere, except buried deep below the surface of the earth, along with signage about how this is not a place of honor
Yeah they’re like kudzu
I would much rather read posts from a bunch of furries comparing notes on how to keep their costumes in yiffing condition.
There’s actually an overlap there sometimes and I really don’t get it.
you can get both and more on telegram, well idk how furries will react to arrest of Durov but you get the idea
All the furries are on mastodon. Not that bootlickers social media
nah, the weebs have mastodon, the furries left for bsky, it was a mutual breakup. they left because it wasn’t hip enough, we stayed because oh my god they’re so full of themselves.
source: my avatar (weeabo) and my three intolerable roommates (furries)
I learned about furries’ existence on 4chan many years ago, and I definitely don’t think that site was healthy at any point in time.
Just because the ecosystem function is not productive in anthropogenic terms, does not mean it doesn’t serve a purpose.
In this case it’s to keep all the removed together. It’s the shrubby marsh of the internet. Smells. Shitty to be in. Get scraped up if you try walking through itm
Healthy in the sense of ‘being a thriving entity’, not in the sense of ‘being particularly good for your health’.
But it did thrive, though.
this claim might seem logical on the surface, but from an outside perspective, we can observe that bluesky is only as much a healthy eco system as for example a zoo is.
therefore, furries on their own can in fact not be a clear indicator for a healthy eco system.
The whole meme about them running the Internet is their own in joke too. Seems similar to when conservatives claim to be a silent majority.
it’s actually more of a tech industry in-joke than a furry in-joke. it’s also at least somewhat based in truth.
That’s close to my point. The subculture is so small there will be far more non-furries spreading the memes than actual furries. They started within the group though. A guy wearing his suit to work on Halloween then talking about it on social media is what started this particular one about them running the internet.
my grandma once told me “hey [irl name] did you know there are people at your school who think they’re cats 😳” I barely held in my laughter
" meow "
Butterflies, eh? Is this a metaphor?
It’s either a fairy cosplay, or a moth fursuit.
If it is, I’m not aware of it.
It’s literally the Bluesky logo. Their plan was furry haven all along…
Conspiracy theory: they hijacked furaffinity’s domain and xitter handle so more people leave that for bluesky
So where are the lemmy furries? And are any into lemmings?
I think pawb.social is a furry instance, but I’m not sure if they federate with .ml or not.
I think there’s also a yiff instance or two out there, too.
We do
They do federate with pawb.
Hello from pawb.social! Honestly don’t recall even seeing an anthro lemming before to be honest. I’m sure they’re out there, maybe just not a common species people draw though.
They are certainly tricky. Very vicious critters, but are shaped like a friend.
And are any into lemmings?
Now that’s a fine game I loved as a kid
Hiiii 😽
We’re silently lurking in the shadows. It’s like the rule that several ninjas may be in the room with you at any given moment, although ninjas are probably better at concealing their smells.
It’s like how when Morn leaves your bar you know the party is over.
I chose “cackle uncontrollably.”
So I realized that the sexy aliens trope is only plausible if either we just colonized a lot of other worlds, and are just boffing with humans who’ve been on other worlds for a while, or (more likely) captured aliens and made genetically engineered versions that fit better into human society (which included making them super-fuckable).
This is how you get aliens in which the females are shorter, slighter with more rounded features and boobs. Contrast the whole of the zoological catalog on earth.
But we humans want aliens we can have sex with.
so is tumblr thriving?
In its own way, I’d say. I saw a poll recently asking people when they made their account, and it seems that the majority of users have been on there since the 2010s. All the toxic users left for Twitter after the porn ban, and that seems to have really chilled out the site.
Modern Tumblr reminds me of Lemmy in a lot of ways. Less tech oriented, but would rather burn the site to the ground than see it become one of the modern corporate social media sites. “Become unmarketable” seems to have become the guiding motto there.
Trying to get back together, I guess. It just won’t manage after the great porn purge of 2018
