What exactly is “easy” and “simple”?

Is for example port forwarding easy? For someone who never heard of router, IP and ports it could be a very difficult task.

Is using docker easy? For someone using it daily for work it probably is.

Wouldn’t easy answers not just end up in step by step guides? Which helps someone to archive the goal by blindly following steps and copying commands, but at the end the person would not know anything he did.

Don’t get me wrong, I surely would subscribe to that community, to help some people out, or ask questions myself. But I think it will turn in a similar one as the ones you already mentioned, maybe just a bit more furry themed ;). Which sounds fun too.

Hello and welcome! :)

Just being interested in furry stuff makes someone furry in my opinion. But finally you are to decide if you call yourself furry or not.

I heard that the right amount of sleep actually extends your lifespan, because of health and so ;).

Good to hear that it is getting better. I wish you a speed recovery!

Hello and welcome fellow fox :)!

Oh, you want to get into full-stack PHP? Then I can recommend you the laravel framework. It is amazing to quickly build a backend. I would recommend to directly start with a tutorial for laravel, you’ll learn PHP automatically.

Don’t believe the negative reputation of PHP. Modern PHP is a great language to use and they have a good documentation.

Btw, I’ve set up together with @Wander@yiffit.net a Matrix room for sysadmin and developer furries. DM me if you are interested to join.

Never heard of them.

Firstly, let’s say I’m not fan of religions at all. In my opinion they cause more harm then good. Here again, a religious group tries to force their beliefs onto other people.

We are talking about fictional works here. No real living entity gets hurt. It is just a product of the mind. Following this, it is only paternalism. Please, we don’t need a thought police.

It reminds me of the “killer games” discussion we had some years ago everywhere in media. People forget that there is a huge gap between what we do virtually and what do do in real life.

Finally I have to add, people that actually do unnecessary harm to real animals in any way deserve the worst punishment and I do not count them as a part of this fandom.

So to answer the questions:

How should the furry fandom react?

Ignore them. Ignoring is always the best option (in a online setting).

Is their point valid but are they simply to loud and aggressive?

Loud and aggressive.

Or are their methods correct and it’s time that the fandom received a wake-up call?

Nope.

Hello and welcome! :)

I still wouldn’t recommend Debian as a desktop distro ;). I know that Debian 12 is pretty up-to-date right now, but it will fall back, after some time. This dude on YouTube summarizes it better.

Do you know Xenia? I’m sure she’ll resonate with you :).

Also, since not all here are techies, do you mind introducing your sona?

Indeed, it is about the time someone invests in his work/art that makes it special.

Like in photography, everybody can create photos, but there is a huge difference between a “tourist photo”, which is shot in seconds, and and artful/professional photo, that took several days to setup.

Hey, just trying to calm your anxiety. There will always be people like us fighting big corporation with open source. Here a list of all open language models as an example.

Join the fight, always recommend people oss alternatives, use these alternatives yourself, contribute to them. Use Firefox instead everything else that is Google based an so on.

Instead of turning away I would recommend you to play around with self-hosted variants, like this for text and this for images. Know your enemy ;). This is what helped me, since I had a similar reaction as you in the beginning.

Disclaimer: I’m not an artist.

AI art and text should be allowed if they are marked as such and/or on designated communities and/or as profile pictures. I’m rather radical and would advocate for an “open source” approach. Meaning people posting AI stuff have to post every input that is required to generate that image or text (model, prompt, seed and so on), like an “attribution”.

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.

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.

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’m researching right now. Regarding the blurring there is already a pull request, that implements the exact feature you would like to do (if I understand you correctly) https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1640.

I agree, maintaining a fork of lemmy-ui and rebuilding it every change is not feasible. Sadly it looks like there are not much more possibilities of extending the ui than the custom header and custom theme css.

So I think the header scripts it is… But one thing I think would be nice is, that these scripts can be enabled/disabled by the users individually and should be off by default. So that people not interested in that are not impacted by possible performance issues or bugs. Nice would be if it would be possible to create an additional settings tab, where all these extra scripts are toggleable.

Let’s see, if I have time I’ll setup a dev-environment to experiment with stuff.

At first I actually wanted to create an additional button for the editor in create post, to paste the link to, but then I decided against it, since I wanted a more universal approach.

But now I’m actually interested in writing lemmy UI plugins, maybe I’ll rewrite my code :).

First I was confused but now I think I get it. You already did something on here, that nsfw stuff is unblurred by default (since it is at least like that for me now), but you would like to make that toggleable. What talks against the “disableblur” and “shownsfw” themes that are selectable. Are these also experiments from you?

I’ll do some research regarding lemmy ui now.
It would actually be better, when there already would be a way to extend behavior server side, like modifying the HTML that gets served, instead of doing it ad-hoc on client side (performance). Also if at point there are to many scripts “patched in” they’ll probably start to be incompatible. Example, I append a child node to a element called “x” and another script removes the element “x” for some reason, which would break mine. Let’s see if extensions are planned in lemmy. Else forking the entire UI and expanding on that would also be a (but more time intensive) possibility.

I’ll come back to it, after I did some more research.

Oh, wow, playing DnD with you must be fun.

So the TLDR of your felkin lore would be:

• They are good farmers and travelers

• They are sometimes traders themself

• You can hire them as support for transporting things

• They live in packs

May I ask how long did it take you to come up with all that, including research? I’m impressed.

Nothing speaks against just trying. If too little people join the chat can be deleted at any time again.

Since you are aiming for tech people, a matrix group would make sense. Also it is well integrated with lemmy. When you add your matrix address in the profile it enables the “secure message” button.
One downside with Matrix seems to be, that you cannot create an invite link, you either have it public (and then it is visible for all people on the matrix instance) or private (invite via username). I would opt for a DM for invite method. Similar how registering to this instance works. We could announce that in this community.

Feel free to DM me, if you want to discus that further!

I like that idea.

Are we talking about a big open group where unlimited people can join. If so wouldn’t that make more sense as a community on this (or other furry) instances? Because at one critical count of members one chat channel would turn out to be very confusing, since many topics would be discussed at once.

Or are you talking about a more private one, where you are searching for members?

I either case I would love to join.
I study informatics and do parttime frontend and backend web-development. One of my hobbies is “self-hosting”, which means I have some knowledge with sysadmin stuff. Only my knowledge in the fediverse is lacking at the moment, but I’m on it.

I suggest following lore for them:

They are a species built for traveling.

They are like the protectors of traveling people, like merchants. They roam around in the fields and help travelers in danger.

They are strong, so they can help to move a caravan from A to B and protect it from possible aggressors.

Some of them are messengers and bring news and important letters from faraway lands.

Judging from the looks, they have a common ascendant to dragons. Following from that they are mythical creatures thus they are very strong, they could have even magical powers, but they are rather rare. They have a calmer nature compared to dragons, mainly because they are herbivorous.

There are highly specialized to different terrain. This explains why they can look very different to each other.

I hope this is a good starting point.

Thank you. I’m actually on it right now.

My current approach is:

How to form a title

Your title should contain, who is searching who and for what activity.

[<you>4<who>] <activity> - Your title

<you>: Abbreviation of your gender identity in capital letter.
<who>: Abbreviation of gender identity of the person you are searching for in capital letter.
<activity>: Full text title of activity you want to do.

Use “G” if you are searching for groups.

You can prefix <you> and/or <who> with “p” for “playing as” and “f” for “favoring”.

Examples:

[M4A] Adult chat - I’m collecting yiff of all Pokémon, can you help me out?
This means: “Male searching for any person for an adult chat.”

[pF4fM] Erotic roleplay - Vixen meets wolfpack
This means: “A person playing female is searching for any person (favoring males) for an erotic roleplay.”

[G4A] Meet in Zurich CH - Bröötle am Zürisee
This means: “A group of people is searching for any person to meet in Zürich Switzerland.”

[TF4G] Meet around Munich DE - Is there a fursuit building group open for a new member?
This means: “A trans female is searching for a group in the area of Munich Germany.”

What do you think about that?

I think I let people choose their gender abbreviation themself. That’s why I decided against a gender glossary (also it feels wrong to do so). As for activities I think it is better when no abbreviations are used, it is easier to comprehend in my opinion.

I love your idea with the introduction posts. So you don’t have to put every detail over and over again into your new posts. I think I even make that as an requirement. Edit: Changed my mind, it is optional.

I’ll add an encouragement for “DM for username” in the sidebar. But I cannot require that because some federated instances are not able to DM to others. For example I was not able to DM to this instance from Kbin.