rollcall: how many furries do we have on Beehaw at this point
rollcall: how many furries do we have on Beehaw at this point
i'm sure my icon speaks for itself here, but i've definitely seen a few of you skittering about in some of our threads. show yourselves at once! maybe post your fursona even (if it's safe for work)
Just your average horse boy here. Don't mind me.
hello!
Hello! I don't get involved in the community much (because shy), but I would consider myself as some kind of wolf.
... Do I still get to claim I'm merely "fandom adjacent" if I've crafted several 'sonas and have actively played as them in various media? Asking for a friend. :P
I’m not. I’ve always been curious about how people learn about it, realize they’re a furry, etc.
What’s your story of how you became a furry? What does it mean to you?
Think I joined and made a fursona around 2018 but I'd thought they were pretty neat ages before. I think I took the plunge since the community appeared to be very friendly as was quite LGBT positive and I was looking for somewhere to make some friends. Went to a meet at the city closest to me and then boom, here I be :D
Not on Beehaw but I am a subscriber over here. My account is on Pawb
Hi! :)
My fursona is also my username ^^
Thats a pretty nice piece of art there!
Thanks :D
very cute!
Thank you! I like how Jerboa/lemmy auto embeds the image. Refreshing, coming from reddit!
have furries been thriving on the fediverse all this time?! eg, mastodon. i legitimately feel like I've noticed a furry "void" in my usual internet spaces for a few years...
There's also pawbs.social and furry technologists on here :)
thanks :3
there does seem to be a dearth of them around here and a lot of that probably has to do with the explosion of the mastodon instance snouts.online a few years back and a generally bad experience with mastodon many furries (at least in my circles) had back around 2019-2020
Entry level furry. If it's a character I like, I might do the deed to them but I don't seek it out outside of that
Hello! Just exploring other instances from pawb.social!
I've moved in and out of the spaces for a while but never fully immersed, in part because I didn't feel strongly about any potential fursonas, and have a disinterest in the most popular art styles used. I've used a rat as an avatar in the past but I don't consider the rat to be representative of me so much as my artist's signature. And it's always been drawn as a cartoon rat, not an anthro rat.
I did used to draw a lot of aliens, monsters, and dragon-people though, and identify with those. It helped me feel stronger or more capable to imagine myself that way. If I ever do settle on an animal to present me online and join the furry community 'properly', it will probably end up being either a fantasy fusion, a scalie, or both.
Squawk!
i can't believe they let birds on the internet
If they banned us you'd have to get rid of your top half, and you don't want to make an ass of yourself :3
+1 here, funnily. But only kind of? Kinda associated with the community when I was younger, grew a little away from it but still consider myself one? Just happy to be a dog on the internet I suppose haha
probably half of the coolest people i know are also dogs on the internet so this may be an intrinsic property of being one
That's a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day
Hi! I'm not super deep into the furry community but I do know a lot of furries and I'm in the process of getting my fursona some better-developed art, so I guess I count?
Love the red avatar by the way, transistor absolutely rules :)
Thanks!! I love her, very powerful vibes :)
I guess I'm a furry? I have a furaffinity account but I'm not really active
I'm not active in the community anymore, so I guess that makes me furry-adjacent but, yeah.
hello, i'm a relatively new furry haha. my main sona is a bat, though i also have a goat and a snow leopard that i often switch between. currently they just exist as different avatars on secondlife, since i can't draw to save my life.
I'm dangerously furry, though I keep on the down-low.
Me kinda? I'm adjacent. I think. I've been in and out as a lurker in the fandom for the past decade or so. I still don't have a sona... mostly because I can't decide what species.
Suppppppppppp :p
hello!
Not enough
as i've noted before furries are the vanguard of any successful online community so any niche you can find them in is probably a stable one
It really comes down to having a "place" to engage in. I don't think beehaw/lemmy has a furry community yet. This is further complicated with "art" (which I understand, hosting+moderation). One of the things I'll miss from reddit is those communities. Granted, I was lurking more for the "art".
Plus if all those furries working in tech just went poof, then the internet would probably collapse!