I always laugh when I see that "furry" is a category too choose server from on the official page. Sums up Mastodon perfectly. Too bad there is no "hentai" that would be the cherry on the cake.
I have to wonder, why do some people just not realize how deeply integrated furries are into the internet's infrastructure? Have they just never looked at their coworkers' profile pictures?
> Too bad there is no "hentai" that would be the cherry on the cake.
It sounds like you think "furry" and "hentai" are congruent categories.
My understanding is that hentai is pornographic. Furry, conversely, is not. More information: https://soatok.blog/2021/04/02/the-furry-sexuality-blog-post
Source: I've been on the Internet a while.
Furries are about as sexual as any other fandom. You don’t want to know the piles of Picard slash that has been written, then serial-filed to absolutely make it into a publishable novella.
No, what you’re really saying but you might not realize you are is that you don’t like the queer/lgbt & sex-positive spaces that form in fandoms and which are less interested,conversely, in your judgement of them.
Now, my UUCP job is nearly done. The latest installment of “The elves of Borimir” is out and my phone line is getting tied up watching you bozos hate on furries.
Hey, furries are awesome. They're tough bastards and I (and I am not being sarcastic) love how they post cartoons of bunnies with come-hither looks or dog-men in leather fetish gear in every forum that allows posting images, no matter how irrelevant to the topic. It's refreshing to see an entire community that's simultaneously very dependent on the Internet, and not taking the whole thing too seriously.
>> "No, what you’re really saying but you might not realize you are is that you don’t like the queer/lgbt & sex-positive spaces that form in fandoms and which are less interested,conversely, in your judgement of them."
I don't know if you've seen The Fandom, but it covers the furry split out of the anime fandom over the queer stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY
We're probably better off for having been given a reason to grow bigger than we could have inside another fandom, but the reasons were still clear, and not much has changed about outsider response except their voices have gotten smaller relative to growing acceptance.
Regardless, it makes sense that platforms promising openness would attract groups that aren't in the mainstream.
You’ve clearly never lived on an octopus farm!