With reddit going down the drain, now's the time to act to help build better furry communities. Let's build a space we can call home <3 (art by Geekidog)
With reddit going down the drain, now's the time to act to help build better furry communities. Let's build a space we can call home <3 (art by Geekidog)
We've gotten over 100 sign-ups since launch, which is a massively good start, especially considering that everyone in the lemmyverse can subscribe to our communities and participate.
Now we need to keep the ball rolling to gain more and more momentum.
Here's some ideas:
- Go over to [email protected] or https://yiffit.net/c/[email protected] and introduce yourself. Your yiffit account gives you access to countless local and remote communities.
- Post your favorite artwork, SFW or NSFW (remember to give attribution)
- Create a new thread about your favorite food, hobbies or projects! Sharing art is only half what this instance has to offer.
- Create your own "subyiffit" / community and moderate it as you see fit. Carve out your own space.
- Help us come up with a name for our yeen mascot.
- Post here from any Mastodon account by simply mentioning it's name. For example @[email protected] or @[email protected]
- Tell your friends!
Corporations like reddit are counting on our inaction to keep control, but we have a golden opportunity to create queer, authentic furry platforms, run by furries, for furries.
Let's go!
I still can't believe how warm and cute this community looks right now. Maybe it's because there are not so many people, but anyway I'm really happy to be here
Yeah I get a similar feeling from lemmy at large, much less toxic than reddit and everybody seems happy to be here, super glad I made the switch :)
Thank you <3 It means a lot that you get this feeling. I'll do my best to make sure it stays tat way and even gets better.
Couldn't agree more, also for the future despite all their problems it would probably be better to set them up on Federated services. Non Federated ones like Tildes seem to have the same problem Reddit has when it comes to Management and infrastructure.
Yup! Totally agreed.
Thank you for running a server! I am worried though about server costs (including your time) as it grows, do you foresee this becoming an issue?
Hey there! Time will be an issue, not money since believe it or not it's not much. I'll share more details about finances if I'll ever need some form of funding. What I will need more of is other admins / mods that can help me keep this running.
loving it so far :D it's been more fun than reddit for me because this feels more like being part of something instead of just a big rss feed. that's what reddit felt like to me and with so many people there are already people who have said what i want to say 20 times over. i hope lemmy keeps the grassroots vibe 💙
Btw thanks for hosting 💜
I gotta say I'm liking the lemmy experience a lot more than my attempt at mastodon. Though I may have to give it another shake.
I'm glad you like it ^^
Check out furryfediverse.org to join a furry instance. You can join mine which is packmates.org and I promise you'll get a super furry federated timeline since we only subscribe to furry relays. You can still follow anyone on Mastodon, of course, but I found that as a furry having a furry federated timeline is much more appealing.
thats super cool!
I like the idea of the fediverse, maybe with reddit burning down we'll get enough folks to hit critical mass and it takes off.
Same, mastodon seemed like Twitter but with extra steps. And I don't use Twitter at all to begin with so I can't say I was very interested. I have always loved forum format though
Mastodon is similar, but it's basically the same concept as here: It's decentralized. Plus there are other types of software like, Friendica, Pleroma, and Misskey which can do the microblog style, but have completely different feels. (But If you're not into the microblog style then that makes sense why you wouldn't like it.) Looking at my twitter I have 392 tweets. (I've had that account since 2008) On my Misskey instance I run I have 9,509 notes and I've been running that for over 3 years now. So I guess it depends on if you just dislike the microblog style or you don't like the atmosphere on twitter. (or both) But I would suggest shopping around for softwares and for instances before discarding it entirely.
Happy to be here :)
It feels nice to try some new fresh communities, it can be hard to find ones nowadays that aren't old or packed full of people. I hope to make some friends here and at pawb or wherever else I look during thilese changing times :3
Excited to see it grow! :3