Log of a conversation I had with a couple other furs when this whole cub ban thing started up. If anyone knows how this could be made a reality, I'd be all for it.
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So.. here's my idea. Hear me out. Instead of a website, it's a server platform for connecting people together. A mix of F-list's character listing features, a muck's virtual world creation possibilities for roleplaying, a booru's image gallery possibilities, and a node connection system sort of like how IRC or Usenet works where the more people who connect up to it, the stronger the network.
People can create either web interfaces or other types of clients to connect up to the server in order to communicate both in real-time and by posting stuff like a web gallery would..
Since everyone connects up collectively, no one single entity can control it or say "this" isn't allowed or "that". They simply don't connect to that node if they don't want to associate.
The concept would be to keep things "IC" Rather than concentrate on this whole popufur social network concept, like F-List, the fantasy of fiction comes back into play at the forefront. So it can be viewed and seen sort of like a growing map of nodes forming an ever-expanding continent. Like Fantasia from Neverending Story. It would be called "FurTasia"
Two reasons for IC over OOC... first, when you get into OOC suddenly brains shut down and say things aren't possible.. but with an IC mentality, suddenly everyone starts imagining and creating and being 'that character' they want to be. It's the matrix from which the 'fursona' concept came from, and I think it's been lost since FA first came into being, trying to copy MySpace or DeviantArt.
So the protocols and platforms would be key to all this.. make them open and modular enough to where if someone wants to create a new form of networking between nodes, they can do that. Maybe someone just wants to chat, while another user wants to browse artists' galleries. Maybe someone else wants to roleplay, etc.. the furtasia platform would be able to connect them up.
That's pretty much the basis of the idea. Something that no one can ultimately have domination over. Everyone who shares and is part of the network has their ability to say what goes on their node.
And if others want to share the application between nodes, they connect up.
Allow for establishment of identity, including profile pics, character backgrounds, history etc, kinks, all that basic F-List concept stuff. They can establish a home node from which they can be contacted at. Just like an MMORPG, but instead of it being 3D graphics and such, it's just all text and data and art.
Just like F-List, you can make multiple characters under one login perhaps? That might not be necessary since it's not a single site, but I want to keep in mind making it easy to switch between characters, or better yet, use multiple characters simultaneously just like you can on F-Chat.
I can imagine since certain nodes would be connecting up with each other in this network.. they could begin associating those nodes with 'lands'.. So if a group of nodes wishes to make a tribe or group identity, they could. Could be based on anything, really.. a type of art they're into, a hobby, passtime, sexual kink they're into, etc.
This hopefully would allieviate that wonderful phenomenon we're facing where X group doesn't want to be near Y group "because they're icky."
But replace the names of those other sites with ones that furries create for themselves to network up.
Btw, the reason why boorus come into play is because they're the best way of locating interests by subject. In fact I find it so unintuitive these days to sort my porn by folder by subject because sometimes I see so many things happening in one that could also qualify as another.
Though I think some form of standardization needs to come into play for taxonomy, because right now I see FN's biggest weakness is its lack of structure.
You type a kink into the search and you get all sorts of variations on that kink.
I don't know if there's other roleplayers here in the room, but that would be a tremendous "holy cow" moment for me where I could host a roleplay server on my node but connect it up with others, so characters whose origin comes from other nodes can visit mine.
So I could 'travel' from my land to theirs. That would be absolutely epic.
And imagine if when I travel there, I could find an artist who I could comission for an art piece.. just like when you go to Tristram and head to the blacksmith. XD
Inserting roleplay concepts into a social network.
And let's say one node bars me from connecting up, well, they don't get my business, do they? :P
So there'd be a sort of incentive to be neighborly rather than shutting them out.
Aaaaaaaaand, I hate to say it, but something like this would be epic to use with Dogecoin or some other alt coin...
Yknow there was a development project for one called Yiffcoin, right?
In a very very loose way it's slightly like a virtual world like SL or a MUCK or something.. except the key is to make it work over a standard, widely used protocol like HTTP or something (or whatever protocol can be decentralized and not need immense special coding knowledge to make it work, or some funky GUI that limits the utility of the thing. I mean sure, you can import textures on SecondLife but it's not the best for actually displaying commissions.. I think that was one of their major downfalls.)
Could you imagine though? I mean the same way an economy works on Second Life, where if you want to connect to a node and have space to host your stuff, you can do that..
And can you imagine when the anime fans and other subcultures want to get in on it? It would be explosive!
