verify you're a human
...lmao, oops
verify you're a human
...lmao, oops
To prove that you are human, click on all the photos that show places you would use for shelter during a robot uprising.
An argument I overheard recently:
"...I think he's a furry."
"Well, furries are people too."
"No, Dave, I'm pretty sure they're not, that's the whole point."
Well, "people" and "humans" aren't the same thing. One's a subset of the other.
Problem with getting too philosophical here is that someday soon the bots might also count as a subset. Then things get really complicated.
someday soon the bots might also count as a subset
Haha, fuck no.
If you mean LLMs, you should give anything Sam Altman says about AGI about as much credence as you give Elon Musk talking about self driving cars. If you mean sapient Fediverse users (fill in the blanks there) who identify as robots, they tend to get really angry if you refer to them as people.
Mate, wait till you learn about otherkin and therians. Things are already REALLY complicated. lol
I think in fantasy you do have what can only be called non-human people. The definition for the word "person" tends to include "human," but only because in real life human persons are the only ones that are known to exist.
Sadly, in the US, we have non-human persons. They're called corporations, and for the moment they have more rights than humans do.
Furries count as human persons, even if they identify as another kind of beastie.
I've had enough non-human friends that I extend the definition to other animals. I've personally known dogs and cats that display remarkable personality and emotional intelligence, not to mention all the great examples of non-human animal communication and love available online. Animals are such people, when you get to know them.
Same, personhood isn’t limited to humans. If you can be a best friend or confidant or true co-companion that is mutually beneficial and mutually understood, that’s all I need to know there’s a person in there. I’ll even extend it to other animals that exhibit complex thought, considerations, relflective behavior, but I don’t push that on other human people, if they want to join me in doing so, they’re my kind of people. The more the merrier. I feel bad for people who can’t see animals that earned their friendship as fiends, as people.
If furries aren't people; Then furries fucking animals isn't beastiality.
This is a very slippery slope. 😓
They’re not the ones engaging in that, that’s the fbi
Furries who engage in erotic furry play (sometimes called yiffing ) partner with other furries, not with actual animals.
Anyway, they are persons and have rights, although the MAGA movement would very much like to strip them of their rights, regard them as mentally ill and disabled, and confine them to institutions. But then, MAGA wants to strip rights of anyone who isn't MAGA.
Otherkin and therians have entered the chat... The slop is steep and has far too many complex hazards to even attempt to go down. I advise agasint this line of questioning.
As a furry, let me assure you that while the furry fandom is incredibly broad and covers a wide range of interests with surprisingly little overlap, perhaps the one thing that unites all of us is how much we despise zoophiles.
If you'd like to see proof of this, look up Hypnotist Sappho.
Man i have literally never met a single therian that doesn't get outrageously pissed off when you even remotely suggest they might be a furry. They are rare tho, so i could have just had bad luck.
I think that's a "used to be the case" thing, but not the case now, or at least those ones are much more separated. I know plenty of furry + therian types now, myself included.
And yes, under zero delusions of body etc. I don't even think about these prompts, but it's fun and makes for waggy feels when I see something that's altered to be more broad. X3
Yep, there's a little bit of overlap, but it's mostly two separate things entirely.
This must be a particularly difficult time for the protogens.
Cloudflare can identify if someone is capable of using humanlike interactions for purpose of determining whether or not they are automated systems. But I don't think they have the capability of deciding who is also cute and fluffy.
I prefer the term "meat-based," but will also accept "biological."
Honestly this kind of lingo has fallen off so much. Need a captcha that tells the user it will weigh your soul
Hey hey only therians believe they're actually a different animal, and even many of them acknowledge the human part. Most furries just vibe well with animals, sometimes more than other humans, and I mean, have you met other humans?
If any furries need a hand I can tick the box for you, I know its too small for many of your paws and some of you with smaller paws may not want to lie to the kind machine keeping the community safer.
Goddamn this post has a lot of comments.
Wonder what the image is. My pihole is blocking the domain and … it’s difficult to change.
Furry Mastodon instance's Cloudflare gate asking you to verify you're human
The furry site of the fediverse, pawb.social, has a capcha-like thing that says "To prevent spam and content scraping, we're needing to verify you're human."
Captioned/titled "furries in shambles"
when the image gets blocked does it block the alt text too? i can add it to the post body if you’re not able to see if without the image being there, but that seems a little counter to the point of alt text lol
This raises some interesting questions, since furries not only have an animal identity, but also are along the anthro spectrum somewhere between human and animal form. Very few furries identify as someone who looks like they could star in The Lion King.
Of course, when people identify as gay or lesbian, they don't necessarily include in their identity where they are on the Kinsey scale.
And then, plenty of trans folk, witches and other people who change their name after an important reckoning, still will keep their government name for official purposes (such as depositing paychecks). Also underaged denizens of the internet will acknowledge the risks they take going into 13+ spaces or adult spaces by clicking through age gates (or even spoofing age verification walls).
That is all to say, we're flexible.
I've had very few interactions with pawb social but some of the early ones was that there were several tankies on there. I'd be wary if any dogpeople are planning on going there, they might be training you into useful disposable hounds. Tankies don't believe in bodily autonomy or nonconformist beliefs.
Feel free to reach out to network[at]pawb.social if you think there's issues we haven't resolved. Lemmy reports can also get resolved by community mods in which case the admin team won't see it. Masto is far better in that dept.
Whoever you interacted with certainly wasn't representative of Pawb. I've been here 3 years and I think I've genuinely never seen a tankie on this instance. Wouldn't be a good instance for them either, as we're defederated from Lemmygrad and Hexbear.
When I joined pawb.social, I did so largely because it wasn't a tankie instance, and if anything, I'd be even more surprised if it is now.
Ew, cloudflare. Do better.
Using anubis would be so much more in theme.
Is it possible to modify the loading page thing for Anubis to change the logo? Pawb should use it, but make the image Neferu from Adastra instead of the anime detective girl.
Edit: A day later, Pawb has switched to Anubis. Did the admins see this post, perhaps? 🤣
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