Communication Platforms

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.

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| Chat clients |
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- 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.

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| Forums |
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- 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.

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| MU*s |
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- 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.