I think that the question of what is a dragon and what isn’t a dragon has become very murky and unclear. I mean there are many dragons that are called dragons but aren’t really dragons, like take the pokemon Goodra for instance. They’re not really a dragon by the classical definitions, but many people consider Goodra a dragon because of their type-set. Often these days it’s more common for dragons to be considered dragons, even if they aren’t really like the classical dragons from European or Asian mythology.

Yeah, glad someone picked it up.

If I’m remembering right it’s between crunchy and chewy. I also remember it being particularly mealy which is why I don’t particularly enjoy it.

I honestly don’t really like candycorn, I know it’s a big Halloween thing but they’re just not my favorite.

Shapeshifting is very useful, though I prefer the other benefits though, like the abilities and disguising yourself. I’d rather not change my genitals unless it’s absolutely necessary (i.e. as part of disguising yourself).

An even better source for calcium is, believe it or not, bones. They have way more calcium than leafy vegetables, and for us carnivores they’re definitely the better option because most of us can’t fully digest plants, and thus don’t get any benefit from them besides fiber. Not sure if that’ll benefit him though, might be harder for him to get the calcium into his bones no matter where he gets it from.

I joined the furry fandom quite a bit after the pandemic lockdown was lifted.

I agree, they are very cute. Which ones are your favorite? Personally mine are dergs, but I’d be interested to hear what yours are.

Square ones: Nice to look at, but unripe and not very tasty. Use it as decoration don’t try to eat them, also on the expensive side ¥¥¥¥¥ not really worth it unless you’re going to attract customers to your store.

Very handy, this chart would likely be very helpful to people who are more new to unix based systems and unfamiliar with the folder structure.

I’m glad that people are finally starting to hack and defeat the DRM used in print cartridges. I’ve always heard people complain about it but I’ve never seen much done.

Backpacks are mostly good if you want to carry bigger or much more stuff. For everyday stuff though, not really necessary since it’ll just be my Phone, my Wallet, a bottle of Advil, and maybe my Steam Deck (in case I want to kill time Gaming while I wait).

Also you can put enamel pins on a messenger bag, and depending on the material it works just as well.

I’d recommend a purse or messenger bag, that’s what I use when I wear a skirt (that doesn’t have pockets). Also could just wear a hoodie and put it in the front pocket(s), that also works.

I think you should keep it up, it’s cute.

I didn’t know about that one that’s cool though, this one I posted here though is meant to be more of a general purpose one, where people can post discussions, art, or memes related to dragons, whereas that one is meant to be only for artwork. Like if people want to post stories or memes they can do it here but they couldn’t in that other one.

Agreed, it would certainly be a good idea for us to have our own pixelfed instance.

I’d say they do, they are two different posts after all, even if they might share the same image link. Though if you want to be sure, you can always just use different image uploads for each one, though using the same link gives better post visibility, and therefore higher likelihood of an additional repost.

I think criticism of matrix as a platform and protocol is valid and can help build a better decentralized ecosystem. We need to address the flaws in order to make it better.

I still think Matrix is probably the best way moving forward since its only real alternative is XMPP, which yeah, better than nothing but not great. Also relying on and ultimately hyping centralized solutions is relying on one guy to not love money more than “the dream”, and his reputation, which always ends up happening at some point in the end (every one of us are susceptible to it, just keep adding 0s). FYI whatsapp used to be just like signal, E2EE zero knowledge, over-hyped privacy messaging app, then they sold it to Facebook who backdoored it and made that not true anymore.

Pushing for a service that ultimately can and very likely will have the same fate, especially when this app is overhyped too just feels irresponsible at least in my opinion, especially since centralized messengers are the hardest to break away from.

I’m impartial about both platforms, and the way I see it is that Signal would be great if it was decentralized, and Matrix would be great if it used a different type of protocol, even though Matrix does use a fork of a protocol that Signal uses.

I think if signal were decentralized it would be awesome and possibly even better than signal in some ways, I also wouldn’t really have any issues with it being given as an alternative to Matrix or XMPP, since it wouldn’t have the same deep issues it has now. Though it isn’t and their developers’ attitude towards decentralization shows that it probably won’t be (someone could fork the open source parts and make it so but it wouldn’t be signal, that would be something else).

I’m not sure what the difference of the protocols Matrix and signal use so I have to look into that in my own time to really find out why one is better than the other like soatok claims haha

I’m not really sure either, I’ve heard that they use similar protocols underneath but I’ve also heard from others that they are drastically different. So hard to say.

I haven’t seen it hyped as much recently (at least not outside of alt-right spaces) but I do remember a time when people wouldn’t shut up about signal.

Matrix certainly does have it’s issues, biggest one being that you can lose your encryption keys and with it message history, though it’s still much better than what you get with signal where you lose message history if you lose that device or lose your account if you lose your phone number (emails are more portable and permanent than phone numbers but you also don’t need the email to log in again, last time I used signal you do need your phone number to log in).

XMPP seems very glitchy and unreliable, I also wasn’t really able to find very good clients on Most modern platforms, but I may not have been looking hard enough. I also didn’t find many rooms of interest on XMPP so lack of people using it is definitely real, though I found no shortage of rooms on Matrix.

Using them to talk to people you know can be hard if people you don’t know don’t use them, I know Matrix does have bridges but I haven’t tried setting those up and I’m not sure how well they’d work.