EgyptUrnash

Firstsona: a raccoon dude.

Replaced by: a dragon lady.

Twenty-five years and one gender transition later, she is still my fursona. In the past few years she's gone from being pitch black to being a starry night sky with blue and purple accents (nsfw), also her tits have generally gotten bigger, her tail's generally fatter, and she's often a noodle-dragon.

Sometimes the raccoon still pops up. She's transitioned too. But dragon's what sticks.

Thanks for your work running what was, for a while, the the best furry art site! :)

Nice hat.

Not at all, I am very happy to be able to preemptively keep Terf Fedi and 4Chan Forever Fedi and all those other Fediverse the fuck out of my little corner of Queer Furry Fedi. Throwing everyone into one giant discussion forum and pushing them to fight with each other because that’s what keeps the ad impressions coming is not an experience I care to return to.

Realistically though I can’t be bothered to engage in “fighting about which instance is better to be in” though, I know which one is better for me and if you think that one is a shitty place for you to be then I am pleased to have you stay in whatever place you like as long as you don’t try to make the place I like stop existing or change to fit your desires.

Ah cool, that's good to know. It'll be my reward for spending another day swearing at the remote site until I finally find whichever cache is serving up a bunch of old code/resources/something; this has been a long-ass upgrade for me.

(I would make a crack about 'here be dragons' given that my instance is dragon.style, but I am too tired to be clever. :) )

How much of a pain in the ass was moving to the Glitch fork? I'm currently in the middle of moving dragon.style from mainline 3.4.6 to mainline 4.1.2, so I can then update to 4.1.3 and get those new security holes closed, and am hoping to have energy left over to move to Glitch 4.1.3 once that's done.

I have been running a Mastodon instance since like 2016/17 and this has been quietly happening for the entire time I've been on the fediverse. (I can't check the exact date right now as I'm in the middle of upgrading it.)

Do you want to be in the Anime Girl Who Posts Nazi Memes Fediverse? How about the Queer Furry Fediverse? Or maybe you'd rather be in the Mocking Shitposts Fediverse? Perhaps you want the Everyone Has A Photo Of A Human And Thinks Federating With Facebook's Activitypub Is Actually A Good Idea Fediverse? Or how about the TERF/Gender-Critical Fediverse? Or the "Standalone" Social Site That Is Actually A Fediverse Instance With Federation Disabled And The Credits Removed In Violation Of The Source License?

Some of these Fediverses will happily talk with others. Some of them will rapidly defederate from others as soon as they encounter a place that clearly belongs to a Fediverse they are incompatible with. Some of them quickly get defederated from the Fediverses they are incompatible with. Some of them look at the #fediblock tag, some to keep aware of places worth pre-emptively blocking to make a chill place to talk, some to look for fellow people who have been cast out of someone else's chill zones.

Oh good, that means I get to buy some Apple and Google stock and mine a dragon's hoard or three worth of bitcoin well before it's at the point where its energy usage becomes an environmental problem.

Probably like the eighties at the earliest. I don't want to live before modern medicine and whatnot. Or is there an unspoken "before you were born" rule in play here?

I've been a dragon in this fandom since about 1995 and I don't think anyone has ever said I don't belong in the furry scene because I am covered in scales instead of fur.

If you like to present as some kind of animal person, then you are a furry.

Oh I'm not saying these putative AI mods would be any better than existing Reddit mods. They'd probably be even more arbitrary and capricious and unappealable, and I sure don't expect them to be anywhere near fully-trained. But they'd be owned by Reddit, who would now be ⭐️⭐️⭐️AN AI COMPANY⭐️⭐️⭐️, which is the replacement for "the blockchain" as a thing you vaguely mention your company using if you want rich, dumb investors to wet their pants and throw tons of money at you.

My bet? AI.

If they have any kind of archive of past mod decisions then they can just dump all that into a neural net. And then they get to look all sexy in their upcoming IPO because they are using ⭐️⭐️⭐️ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE⭐️⭐️⭐️ like all the ⭐️⭐️⭐️SEXIEST⭐️⭐️⭐️ companies!!!1! No more of those annoying unpaid volunteers to get uppity any more!

I, for one, do not welcome our new AI moderation overlords, and will probably be done with Reddit if this happens. But I just know someone there has to be pushing for this.