Re: Communication Platforms

On 28/04/2025 1:56 p.m., Brian W. Antoine wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:28:31 -0000 (UTC), Stone Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> YiffNet has been on Discord for years, and even IRC until nobody was using
> it.  Not the busiest of channels, unless you trigger some memory in one of
> the old farts. :)
I'm still on an active IRC channel.