I’ve reached a point where I’m much more likely to store my data with a random furry hacker hosting their service in Netherlands than a big tech corpo.
I will trust random furry hackers with my life.
What’s the link for the furry hacker hosting in the Netherlands? I guess it’s the influence of the fediverse, but this scenario does sound more trustworthy
Furries has made real, powerful, and constant efforts to purge fascists from their spaces.
In 2017, there was a massive push to remove the nazi furs from public spaces. As far as I’m aware, their numbers never recovered, and since then, community members have kept the effort going.
I haven’t looking into the community in a while, but I do remember a weirdly high number of people in furry documentaries and interviews having like SS bands and other nazi insignia. Glad they purged that.
Yeah, nazifurs, or Furry Raiders. They were banned a lot, everywhere. And then there was a whole thing where that right wing asshole Milo Yiannopolous was talking a big game about how he was going to go to a furry convention. So, he got pre-emptively banned from the event, and then he was online talking a big game about planning to show up… people were expecting violence… and he never did.
I know I’m not the only one who laughed and laughed. I really enjoy reading about lots of subcultures online, and whenever the furry drama pops up, it’s some of the most riveting.
I know this is reposted to lemmy so people are understandably going to connect those dots but OOP was talking about cohost, a site very similar to tumblr. Many people (including myself) jumped ship from tumblr to cohost following a series transmisogynistic bans and censorship from tumblr’s staff. Cohost was run by 4 people, didn’t run ads and was funded entirely by the community. It was honestly the best social media platform I’ve ever used. Unfortunately it shut down in October 2024 due to lack of funding and developer burnout. In retrospect, OOP was right. The people I followed on cohost moved to discord servers or their own blogs, and while I didn’t engage much with my “community” on cohost while it was around, I lost a lot of what I used to see on there. I think lemmy and federated social media is more resistant to that because it’s spread across so many instances, but I think OOP has a point, smaller social networks like this and cohost aren’t stable. While I think tumblr and twitter are pretty horrible for many reasons and I don’t wish to go back, I can’t really blame OOP for their sentiments. Maybe one day we can have the best of both worlds.
