I feel like about every year I ask this and get a few different answers... it's always a little different and there always seem to be other up-and-coming sites that never quite hit it off.

With the popularity of social media, I was wondering if perhaps there was a site more like a traditional social media that is geared toward furs? I love FA but the place is DEFINITELY focused around art marketing first and foremost it seems. I want a chill place where I can hang out and just interact, but asynchronous (not live chatting like discord or twitch or whatever). I tried Ferzu and it's cool but most times I feel invisible there lol.

A place where there are a lot of older furs would be nice too. I am perfectly fine talking to younger people and furs of all ages, but I just happen to relate to older people more, being that I am, well, older lol. I think we can all have things in common and have discussions, but it's easier to relate to people 40+ when you are 40+. I don't need a place that is exclusively for older people. I like having all kinds of people to talk to. I just don't want to be drowning in young people being the only older person around XD

Sometimes I hear of things like 'furry twitter' and stuff like that... but of course those are spaces for anyone and everyone and you have to like put a lot of effort into curating and tailoring your experience into being furry-centric.

And of course I'm not JUST looking for social media. Stuff like art sites and forums and stuff would be fine too.

I just feel like 90% of what I run into on FA is art exchange, especially for money. And that's great -- I've done commissions before, and now that drawing is incredibly difficult and painful for me, I'm actually considering doing some more commissioning of artists in the future (disabled + MEDICAL BILLS = not a lot of money though, and art prices these days are CRAZY). And I like seeing my old friends succeed and grow as pro artists. But when I come to FA looking for a little interaction or chat, check my journals and it's all 'commissions are open (3 slots)' journals and then check submissions and they're all prices and YCH ads... there's not a lot to really interact with, you know?

I feel like with online experiences being tailored to younger generations and the boom in popularity of the furry fandom in recent years, furry might even start to seem a general enough interest that there's not really 'spaces' for it anymore, and it's just something people discuss in general spaces like twitter, tiktok, etc. Am I wrong?

When I do a quick search for 'furry social media' I do find a lot of random stuff, but I have no idea how good any of this stuff is and if people really hang out there, and what the demographics are, and of course some could be scams.

I guess I'll just try some out today. I am running on 5 hours of sleep because someone is supposed to come out and tune up our heating/cooling or something today? And my mate is not really capable of walking around the house and showing them where to go and answering the door and stuff easily, so it's up to me. Yay. They should be here in the next 30 minutes.