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    There are four groups of people needed for any tech environment to strive, furries, femboys, Transfems, and Linux users (especially Arch btw users).

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      Nazis are an invasive plant in the ecosystem. They must be eradicated for the system to thrive.

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        Bad analogy because invasive plants all come from an ecosystem where they’re not problematic. Like, kudzu is fine in its native habitat.

        Nazis are more like toxic waste - not good anywhere, except buried deep below the surface of the earth, along with signage about how this is not a place of honor

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      I would much rather read posts from a bunch of furries comparing notes on how to keep their costumes in yiffing condition.

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      nah, the weebs have mastodon, the furries left for bsky, it was a mutual breakup. they left because it wasn’t hip enough, we stayed because oh my god they’re so full of themselves.

      source: my avatar (weeabo) and my three intolerable roommates (furries)

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    I learned about furries’ existence on 4chan many years ago, and I definitely don’t think that site was healthy at any point in time.

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      Just because the ecosystem function is not productive in anthropogenic terms, does not mean it doesn’t serve a purpose.

      In this case it’s to keep all the btards together. It’s the shrubby marsh of the internet. Smells. Shitty to be in. Get scraped up if you try walking through itm

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      Healthy in the sense of ‘being a thriving entity’, not in the sense of ‘being particularly good for your health’.

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    Yeah, makes sense. They’re an online community that is famously the gateway drug for rightwing hate groups before they move onto harder stuff. “Execute the furries” into “gays are bad” is basically a core part of the rightwinger life cycle

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      There’s a major overlap between the two groups anyway, so hatred of one is often an easy sign of hatred of the other.

      That, and how many furries are in tech related fields says a lot about the health of an online system. If the furries don’t want anything to do with it, then it must have an issue of some kind.

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      I reconnected with some friends I haven’t talked to much since covid. I was making fun of how Meta couldn’t figure out VR legs at the same time that the furries figured out digitigrade legs and somehow they didn’t pickup that I wasn’t making fun of furries and one started complaining about furries. Fucking weird that they occupy their headspace like that despite never interacting with them irl.

      One of them was also complaining about his comics being blacklisted on various sites for politics when really, his art just sucks and hasn’t gotten any better in the decades he’s been doing it. The other was complaining about woke games he doesn’t have a system to play them with anyway. If you spend more the 30 seconds clowning on Forspoken, you have issues.

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        No matter how much I fail in life, I know I’ll never be as pathetic as people who make fascism their entire personality. The right wing attracts losers like no other group.

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          This guy texted me around the time Feminist Frequency shutdown all proud and thought I would be happy as well. He was really confused that I just didn’t care. I’m not a fan of Anita Sarkeesian, but she’s not really involved in any of the games I want to play. It was such a none issue for me.

          I try to steer the conversation to games I think are fun, but he just wants to complain about a subcuture he’s not even a part of. Like, just play a fucking game instead of having these talking heads pump culture war bs into your ears constantly.

          On the flip site, the biggest proponents of Sarkeesian I know irl also don’t play video games and the few times I brought up video game thing, I was met with disinterest. Twitter really has rotted people’s brains.

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            I have no idea how that site even still exists. I’m convinced Elong has been genuinely trying to kill it, but it’s so cursed that shambles along like those movie zombies that shouldn’t even be able to move.

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    this claim might seem logical on the surface, but from an outside perspective, we can observe that bluesky is only as much a healthy eco system as for example a zoo is.

    therefore, furries on their own can in fact not be a clear indicator for a healthy eco system.

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      The whole meme about them running the Internet is their own in joke too. Seems similar to when conservatives claim to be a silent majority.

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        it’s actually more of a tech industry in-joke than a furry in-joke. it’s also at least somewhat based in truth.

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          That’s close to my point. The subculture is so small there will be far more non-furries spreading the memes than actual furries. They started within the group though. A guy wearing his suit to work on Halloween then talking about it on social media is what started this particular one about them running the internet.

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    my grandma once told me “hey [irl name] did you know there are people at your school who think they’re cats 😳” I barely held in my laughter

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    Butterflies, eh? Is this a metaphor?

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      I think pawb.social is a furry instance, but I’m not sure if they federate with .ml or not.

      I think there’s also a yiff instance or two out there, too.

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      Hello from pawb.social! Honestly don’t recall even seeing an anthro lemming before to be honest. I’m sure they’re out there, maybe just not a common species people draw though.

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      There’s a couple. One of them actually went dark suddenly and recently, which is a little concerning but it’s probably just DDOS attacks.

      Unfortunately I don’t know if any of them are using lemmings in their banner, though I’m suddenly very disappointed in my own instance for choosing a hyena.

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        yeens are like the stereotypical non-obvious choice for a furry species.

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      We’re silently lurking in the shadows. It’s like the rule that several ninjas may be in the room with you at any given moment, although ninjas are probably better at concealing their smells.

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    So I realized that the sexy aliens trope is only plausible if either we just colonized a lot of other worlds, and are just boffing with humans who’ve been on other worlds for a while, or (more likely) captured aliens and made genetically engineered versions that fit better into human society (which included making them super-fuckable).

    This is how you get aliens in which the females are shorter, slighter with more rounded features and boobs. Contrast the whole of the zoological catalog on earth.

    But we humans want aliens we can have sex with.

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      In its own way, I’d say. I saw a poll recently asking people when they made their account, and it seems that the majority of users have been on there since the 2010s. All the toxic users left for Twitter after the porn ban, and that seems to have really chilled out the site.

      Modern Tumblr reminds me of Lemmy in a lot of ways. Less tech oriented, but would rather burn the site to the ground than see it become one of the modern corporate social media sites. “Become unmarketable” seems to have become the guiding motto there.