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I got early access a few months back, felt like it was 50% furry content.

Not that I have any problems with furries, each to their own - rather it's just seemingly pretty niche for a newcomer to get flooded with posts about - perhaps that really was all the content there was.

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>perhaps that really was all the content there was

Not really: https://bsky.jazco.dev/atlas

FWIW, that was my first impressions too. Go check out the popular lists page, half by the furry community.

Nothing wrong with that. It's like walking into a biker bar with out realizing and being completely out of place. No issue with bikers, but to be the only preppy dressed nerd in the building?

May I ask, what is this ‘furries’ thing?

You don't want to know.

But some day there will be no one to save me from this knowledge, kind sir! Will I be ready then?

People dress up as animals known as their "fursona" and is not necesarily sexual but tends to be

What’s the idea behind it? Or is it just a thing for mentally unstable folks?

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