Re: Communication Platforms

On 5/5/2025 5:35 PM, Dan Skunk wrote:
> 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.
You should tell the audience which is it