Social Media Thread of Social Media Drama

[benji]

[Ribosome]

[Polident]

Thank you all for the many reactions to my PS VITA post, including from people overseas. 
I used to post a lot of slightly different content before. 
Air duster... do you use it? 
I used to post air duster videos every day. 
This is a basic technique called "walking the dog." 
An air duster is a magical tool—let's blow away all the unpleasant things with an air duster

Hell yeah

[Alpacx]

This went over well.

[Uncle]

between this and the earlier announcement of bluesky starting up an AI service of their own, they are very clearly trying to get all the screeching blue hairs off their platform now 

[benji]

[Uncle]

This went over well.

   

did you know?? anything that becomes quietly ubiquitous must be as bad as pedophilia!

 

   

the exact moment that various grifting companies begin to fail, that's when currently working code self-destructs and ruins your existing software

just like how all YKK brand zippers spontaneously unzipped themselves on jan 1, 2000

[benji]

probably should take down your websites before the web bubble bursts, I say this with all love and courtesy, Jay

[benji]

[Potato]

Oh wow, he made THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. That sounds impressive. How many hours did he plough into it instead of studying medicine?

[simiansmarts]

[Ribosome]

[benji]

[Ribosome]

Fortunately high quality posts like this will still be monetized on the Everything App. 

[Uncle]

   

[Alpacx]

Leopards eating faces 

[TylenolJones]

Michael Tracy

[benji]

[Uncle]

I don't understand 

if brianna is betting that someone else believes in free palestine, what relevance does that have to what brianna has said in the past? that particular dude's beliefs are what's in question

edit: oh he retweeted brianna's position? but again it's not proof his thoughts didn't evolve

[benji]

[Besticus Maximus]

Hey, I've been noticing a lot of posts about too much furry content on Bluesky along with several blocklists, and I feel like I should help clarify what's going on in a friendly way from an actual furry's perspective, along with sharing a bit of information on "what the fuck is a furry" and whatnot. I wanna make it clear that I certainly don't speak for every furry and this is an objective generalization of a behavior I see from the furry public on social media. But I feel like some of this is something a lot of us agree with, and here's some points I'd like to make to help both Newskies and old users alike:

(don't worry, there's a TL;DR at the end)

• Please don't block us; mute us instead!
We're fully aware that our weird art is weird, and that nobody should be forced to see it. However, people are using blocklists to straight up block furries, which is perfectly understandable but also a bit of an issue, because we're not a harmful public and we want to interact with several other accounts and have access to a plethora of other topics without forcing any of the weird porn.

Most people don't know the difference between blocking and muting, and while the platform grows and furry blocklists popularize, several accounts that post or share info that's useful to everyone could just not have it show at all for the massive furry public in it. Unless those furries are just muted, which can be done using the same blocklists.

Furries are also very vocal about content filtering, and we're spreading the word swiftly about marking porn as porn for those who don't wanna see it, or aren't allowed to. Use blocklists to mute furries if you don't wanna see them!

• You're seeing a lot of our skeets because we were one of the first groups to arrive on Bluesky
Since furries are a relatively small community guided by their own big artists rather than big media companies, we tend to stick together and shifting to a different platform is easy. On top of that, a good chunk of the community are IT nerds, or introverts who stay on the internet for a good while. When Elmo started giving shit to Twitter users, we immediately started spreading the word on Bluesky and started moving there. About a year ago Bluesky posted an interaction map showing the different demographics in the app's first months, and we were right up there around the biggest.

r/BlueskySocial - Current view of the interaction map, with a big green furry smudge on it
Current view of the interaction map, with a big green furry smudge on it
Since we're also in a consensus that AI is bad for artists and we try hard to keep minors away from the more kinky content (often by blocking) as an established rule, Twitter's shady new guidelines on copyrighting and blocking made it clear that we should move. And we're doing so, by the thousands. So, if you're seeing even more furries lately, that's why.

Add all that to the fact that Bluesky's Discover tab algorithm is still in its infancy, and you'll get a lot of furries. The way I see it, the unwanted furry content will vanish from the big public media tab as the platform gets more popular and the dev team improves the algorithm.

• I've seen (non-furry) people say that seeing furries are a sign of a good social environment, actually
Since there's so many IT nerds in the fandom, it's common for us to spread the word a functional platform that'll make everyone comfortable while not being aggressively corporate. Beyond that, furries usually expose and report horrible people, and are especially stingy towards hate groups, pedos, zoophiles (yep, please don't think we're related welcoming towards those) and generally terrible people, to the point where a lot of us will express that discomfort right in up our bio. It just happens that Bluesky is that platform now.

• "So what's up with these weirdos anyway?"
Furries are just a group of people who love anthropomorphic art and get together to share their creativity and hang out, while also being a very safe place for queer and neurodivergent people to socialize more openly. There's the sexual aspect, which is definitely a massive of it, and it's sincerely just part of the self-expression side of things which is a core aspect of the fandom. And that's pretty much it! It's because we're called weird that we formed a whole international community in the first place; to feel safe and happy around more people like with these same interests.

We're not a fandom that's built around content made by media corporations; we're more interested in what's created inside the community instead. That said, one could say art is a necessary mean of self-expression for furries, and that's why it's so common for us to quickly flock over to a platform where we can express that wacky creative work safely.

If you want to know more, filmmaker Ash Coyote made an absolutely fantastic documentary about furries that's absolutely worth a watch, even if just for the production quality alone.

• Something about myself in the community
I'm a 27 year old Brazilian furry artist, and I've been in this community for 13 years. I've learned wonderful skills with some of the most amazing people I've ever met, got three jobs who got me financially stable, found the love of my life, and genuinely learned to be a much better version of myself. I don't expect anyone to sympathize, but I feel like saying some positive stuff that happens in the community out loud is important!

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, and enjoy Bluesky!

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TL;DR: Furries are actually pretty chill, and you're seeing a lot of them because they were there since the start; they tend to stick together when a platform like Twitter becomes too toxic or harmful, meaning furries are arguably a sign of a healthy environment... and they also share heaps upon heaps of art you might not like, while the Bluesky content curation options are still on their first steps. I'm not blaming people for blocking furries on blocklists; I'm simply asking to mute them instead, because people should still be allowed to interact and have access to information if they didn't do something inherently wrong, just as you shouldn't be forced to see their content or anything that makes you uncomfortable.

[benji]

they tend to stick together when a platform like Twitter becomes too toxic or harmful, meaning furries are arguably a sign of a healthy environment...

[killamajig]

Furries are actually pretty chill

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

block all furries