Re: Communication Platforms

On 4/7/2025 9:20 PM, Stone Fox wrote:
> On 2025-04-06, FrigidFoxtrot <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> +--------------+
>> | Chat clients |
>> +--------------+
>> - 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.
>>
>> +--------+
>> | Forums |
>> +--------+
>> - 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.
>>
>> +------+
>> | MU*s |
>> +------+
>> - 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.

Is my client messed up or did your reply get gobbled?