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Furries are cool

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I can respect that they deserve to be treated a humans and still find it gross. because it's gross.
- Gross? What's gross about it?
  
  Mostly the related art. The amount of yiff communities I had to block to keep their porn out of my feed was surprising. I don't begrudge them their lifestyle. You want to put on something and have sex with somebody, go for it. I'm not into even 1%. The amount of erotic art that exists is beyond astounding to me. Meanwhile, I struggle to find active communities about Halloween, Lego, and various games I play. Granted, I haven't looked lately for new ones, but the ones I subscribed to previously aren't very active.
  
  That might be an instance issue, honestly. I have never seen porn of any kind cross my feed unless I specifically go looking for it. Your instance might just be federated with a bunch of furry porn communities.
  My feed is basically exclusively 196, politics, Linux, Star Trek, and related meme subs to those - and I just set my feed to top 24 hours or sort by active on the all feed. But I also think a lot of communities outside of those are rather underrepresented on Lemmy.
  
  From my understanding of federated instances, wouldn't that mean your instance disconnected from whatever instance where those communities were hosted? Additionally, my instance either hosts those communities or is still connected with them, yes? I'm trying to explain Lemmy to friends. So, I'm making sure my understanding is accurate.
  
  Yeah, that's right. You're on .world, right? Which I believe is federated with just about everything. There are all kinds of instances out there, and some are more selective of which instances they're federated with to filter out communities like that.
  
  That's correct. I'm fine filtering them out manually, I was just very surprised at how much content I was seeing.
  
  Fur suits and furry porn are two different things.
  
  Sure, but nearly all of the furry art I've seen has been porn. I get that there are lifestyles and activities that are not porn-related. Either way if you're into it, you do your thing. I'm probably not going to be commenting on their creativity because I find the whole thing a little creepy, but I also wouldn't limit someone's ability to live that way.
  
  nearly all of the furry art I've seen has been porn
  That's a you problem, the majority of furry art is not porn, and it's trivially easy on pretty much every site online where furry art is compiled, to filter out explicit material.
  
  You said you find fur suits gross though, those aren't inherently sexual.
  
  That was someone else. I'm not the original commenter on this comment chain.
  
  When they asked them what they thought was gross you answered, so I would assume you share that opinion. Do you not?
  
  I answered with mostly the related art. That's the gross part, for me.
  
  Every fandom has that NSFW side and it’s not specific to furries. There’s plenty of SFW furry art like the animation memes you see on youtube and websites like artfight. If you don’t want to see the NSFW stuff then just avoid going on those sites or communities; it’s really not that hard.
  
  Yeah, that's why I blocked them. I don't visit them and insult them. There was a discussion of what about this one was gross, which I didn't start. I answered. There's lots of gross stuff across communities and I block those, too. I don't begrudge people their interests or kinks. I do find some of them gross. I think that's fine, as I'm usually not engaged with those communities.
  
  So you think people in fur suits are gross... Because furry art exists? What?
  
  No... I said the gross part, for me, when it comes to furries is the related art because so much of what I've seen is the porn. Are you just looking for a reason to be mad at me? If you've read my comments in this post, I specifically have stated the art is the gross part, specifically here on Lemmy where the vast majority of it has been the porn. I have also said I have no problem with furries in general. I don't even have a problem with their art, really--I just think the porn is gross, and I block it so that we can all keep on keepin' on. I'm not trying to stop furries from existing or creating art (including the porn). Like anything I don't want to see, I just don't want to be forced to see it. My Lemmy app sufficiently allows me to filter out the stuff I don't want to see. Problem solved.
  
  Y’all smell under that suit.
  
  I, unfortunately, do not have a suit 😭

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