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”.

Xenia <3