I'd hate to see this site cease to exist and see nearly 20 years of art end up lost to time. And the fandom loses its most popular site.

Won't know what's going on till someone can update everyone.

If there was only one person paying the bills then there may be less than a month before FA goes offline.

I also just set up a Furrynetwork account since it is the least "twitter copy like".

And , yeah, I'm worried about what this will do to the fandom if people start splitting off everywhere.

I already know what will happen on twitter if it gets flooded with furry art, the "normies" will start getting annoyed and unless Elon Musk is a furry himself they will likely ban furry art as "bestiality" like other "normie" sites have before either causing a mass die-off of art or making people humanize furry shit to the point it is anime-neko humans with cat ears stuff.

And I'm gonna be real sad if FA goes down without some mass backup somewhere because of how many great artists that have passed away and all that is left is their FA accounts. ;_;

It really does suck when FA is like the only viable furry site, and if the worst happens, the community's going to be shit out of luck.

The other places exist, but when compared to FA, they're ghost towns. Weasyl's a site that I see more and more journals and announcements of people leaving because there's hardly anybody there. And if FA were to die, I'm not sure if tons of people will migrate to them.

If that happens, furry will be pretty much dead as an art form. I'd dread if Twitter became FA's "replacement" and the new home for furs. The fact people can't separate fantasy from reality and think if my Grumpus character has a canine cock that must mean I fuck dogs, right?

You bring up a great point regarding artists that have passed on and all of their legacy is on an account that might disappear, with all the art they did being forever lost. :(

Yeah, Weasyl had a big problem with not allowing commissioners years ago so it was a bunch of artists and no commissioners and just never really took off.

Twitter and such are often deceptive because they have a heavy "bot" problem that makes people "feel" like they are "popular" because of non-content accounts favoriting or liking things they do to keep them on the site.

"Furry Network" and "Inkbunny" look a bit better as they are set up as actual art sites with "community tagging" and simple easy-to-read rules/TOS, with actual working blacklists and whitelists, with inkbunny being around for quite some time now.

And, yeah... People REALLY need to be reminded that twitter, X, Facebook, and whatever are not only NOT art sites, but are also NOT FURRY! And open up to not only furry drama but "normie" drama as well which never works out well when many artistic types are one bad comment and "triggering" away from deleting everything without warning.

Inkbunny is relevant, but they've got a problem with their reputation. A reason why I'm not on there is because of the number of users that have the MAP flag displayed, or in their profile they're proud to be pedophiles and animal fuckers, and those whack jobs are what give our fandom such a bad name.

I'll look into Furry Network, just hope they've got an active community, and there's plenty of NSFW that pertains to my kinks. Sorry, but I am a pretty horny fur. I need my wank material.

I don't know how furs can tolerate Twitter. Beyond the drama and infestation of bots, the political discourse on there makes you think the American people want a second Civil War. There's no nuance when it comes to an opinion, it's either "if you're not with me, than you're my enemy" mentality, and both sides seem to view each other as unhinged savages needing to be eradicated. And people are so vile on Twitter, like is the engagement worth it when it's going to kill your mental health being on such a toxic hellhole?

Reputation?

LOL It's the furry fandom.

We aren't exactly considered beacons of morality IRL to regular people.

Don't know what you mean about flags on inkbunny, but that's why they have tagging and blacklists, so if you don't like anyone or anything in particular, you can block it. The site itself blocks human art and real-life things. Inkbunny also actively bans any admissions of real-life map shit and is in the TOS.

As long as people can separate fantasy from reality and give people the ability to block things they don't want to see I'd rather have a site with less censorship even if it allows things like scat, fart, gore, cub, and blood porn.

I'm not going to defend fetishes I don't like, but as long as people aren't hurting anyone IRL, then whatever. I'm not enough of a "Karen" to get offended at every little thing online as I've seen the totally uncensored internet from the 90s and would be more worried about the IRL shit that is CONSTANTLY found on sites like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook over anything drawn.

So at this point, I'm just happy with sites that have tagging and blacklists because no matter what site you use there will ALWAYS be weirdos and people up to strange things on it, in it, or owning/running it.

True.

We just don't need to give the normal folk another reason to try and ban furry from the internet. LOL

What I mean is for pages I can see that allow guest access, and from what users on here, whom I follow have observed, there's artwork depicting the MAP flag, with people stating their proud to be pedophiles, and make posts trying to justify their fucked up attraction.

I know it has tagging and blacklists, and while I'm sure the admins there aren't pro-pedophile, the site has that negative stigma surrounding it for being the pedophile site for furs.

I agree with you there, even when it comes to fetishes and fantasies I don't like, as long as it's kept in the realms of fantasy and real people aren't being hurt, then by all means go bananas. I loathe censorship, and some of the stuff you listed, I'm fine with showing up. I've got a HUGE fart fetish and fart porn is something I LOVE.