Hello everyone!
First of all apologies for not having followed through with some ideas that I’ve had recently. I’ve found myself with less time than usual and been away for a while as well.
In the meantime I wanted to ask you what topics that are furry or furry related would you see yourselves discussing or debating?
I know that one of the rules of Yiffit is to avoid drama, but if we find certain debate/discussion topics and create the necessary environment to discuss them in a healthy way this might be something we could do.
In my case for example, a topic that always pops up on twitter is the debate around feral nsfw content. I won’t get into details since this is not the post to do so, but I’m leaving it here as a potential topic for future more organized debates and discussions.
Please feel free to share or mention the topics that are furry or furry adjacent about which you have strong feelings and which you see yourself discussing in we found a proper way to do so. Feel also free to agree with other people in the comments as in “yes, I’d like to see this topic discussed as well”.
The goal is to find topics we would love to discuss without necessarily opening pandora’s box in this thread itself.
Thank you <3 I hope I don’t come off as too cautious. I’m just unsure about what topics will be suggested and want to preempt a major flame war in the comments :P
Note:
topics don’t need to be controversial at all. You can propose talking about everyone’s favorite fursuit artists. The cautious approach I took here is just in case something controversial comes up.
Personally I just like stories and storytelling. I’d love to talk about people’s OCs and their original lore and the tales they’ve created.
I know that ‘This is my OC from an underwater lab in space and they have powers to surpass Metal Gear’ was a big old ‘haha cringe’ meme in like, 2011. And that kind of led to the death of people giving their OCs significant story. But it’s the sort of thing that I unironically enjoy and love.
Not sure if this is quite applicable as a conversation topic but I’m really confused as to why furries have seemed to stay on reddit. Furries are normally first in line for this sort of activism, especially when it involves cool technology. It feels like furries have stayed behind more than other groups, on average?
Interesting topic indeed. But aren’t there many furs on mastodon instances? Also it could be that it just feels like that, since it is harder to count that now, since we are fragmented over different instances.
Yeah that’s another thing that surprised me - I’m not really into the Mastodon style of posting, but to my knowledge there are a lot of furries on Mastodon. Did they all decide not to try Lemmy as well? I’m under the impression that it’s a lot easier to switch from Reddit to Lemmy than from Twitter to Mastodon, due to the network effect.
Hmm. In Mastodon you follow people like in Twitter. And on lemmy you follow topics like on reddit. I prefer to follow topics instead of some “influencers”, that’s why I’m here.
But the incentive to switch platforms is higher for someone, when his favorite tweeter switches to Mastodon, it is just about consuming the content of that person.
For here it is more important that many people are creating content, to be able to consume much. Also an empty community “looks scary” to post something, so we need brave people to post there first. That is probably why the start is slower. It is just about a critical mass.
AI art will be an controverse one, I think.
Less controverse, I’m somewhat interested in the psychology of being a furry. Like is your sona a version of yourself or not. Does the species you chose say something about yourself.
Discussing such topics would be fun, but you would have to provide a very safe environment for that somehow. Which sounds like a very difficult task to me…
I would be interested to hear about how their local furry scene is, the variations in meets (if any).
When I was hosting local furry events, it was a bit of a pain to think up activities to do. Looking at other communities helped.
We’ve been playing airsoft and paintball quite a bit actually. It’s been a lot of fun!
I don’t have anything off the top of my head, but this sounds a bit like r/RealFurryHours - maybe you can take some inspiration from some of the topics there
I have very mixed feeling about /r/RealFurryHours. On one paw it really is the type of community that I’d love replicating here on reddit, on the other paw what I’ve seen from it was often some sort of echo chamber where differing opinions where downvoted without really fostering real discussion or debate. IMHO, Mastodon is probably a better place to host that type of group / community since it does not have downvotes or even upvotes.
I could very well be mistaken, though, and it would work better on here. I’m not sure I’m fit for moderating it though. Maybe it’s something that can be hosted on Pawb?
Yeah I didn’t mean to replicate it, but just to skim some of the topics they’ve talked about for inspiration. I’m not a fan of the whole “asktrumpsupporters” vibe where everyone has an agenda from the outset.
r/RealFurryHours is a weird subreddit because on one hand it’s good to have a place to talk about more serious furry things but it really rubs me the wrong way that the subreddit description explicitly welcomes anti-furries
I’ve never really visited it for more than a few minutes, but I know historically they’ve tried to have discussions on some of the more controversial issues. As a whole I would guess it’s probably a very self-selecting subreddit of smug/holier-than-thou furries and anti-furries. “I’m a furry but I’m not one of THOSE furries!” Discussion is likely not representative of general population.
I use to regularly use it when it first started. It’s not as bad as you make it out to be. It was actually very well moderated and had serious discussion where both sides could talk, ask questions, and explain things to one another. The more trollish comments like “Furries Bad”, or “kill all furries” were generally removed immediately.
Anti-furries could ask the questions they normally would never have asked when in an anti-fur circle jerk and furries could explain things about the fandom or LGBTQ stuff within the fandom in general to Anti-furs. And even bring up controversial topics like the difference between feral and zoophilia.why do furries have fursona’s, why do furries act as weird as they do?
And Furries could ask the serious questions they never want to ask Anti-furs, like “why they hate furries so much? What caused it? Etc.”
You even had burned furs participating and talking, explaining the experiences that made them choose to leave the fandom and their problems with the fandom. But that was when it first opened up.
I’m not sure when it happened exactly, but I will only assume it was around the time r/yiffinhell got it’s entire moderation staff ousted by the Reddit admins and the new lead moderator put in place, was a furry.
I think it drove much of the Anti-furs that were participating away from wanting to communicate and participate and talk anymore. Very few remained.
From their, it kinda became more about drama in the furry community itself and on reddit. Like how the mod staff of /r/furry were overzealous in their moderation of r/furry or the drama surrounding that necrophilic zoophile YouTuber, Kero something…
I mean, it was still well moderated when I stopped subbing that sub, but it was more about furry drama among furries at that point. Well moderated drama, but still drama. And frankly I don’t care enough about furry drama to stick around.
And that is why I left that sub. I still appreciate what it was trying to do early on.