Re: Communication Platforms

On 2025-04-14, FrigidFoxtrot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

My client is messed up. I wrote a response, sent it, and then later learned
nothing was sent. I abandoned this thread after that in fear my client
would mess it up further.