Canvas Logo
If you haven’t heard, there as a Lemmy version of /r/Place this weekend called Canvas [https://canvas.toast.ooo/]. There was a bit of furry art (and a ton of Bronies), but I didn’t see Pawb.social represented, so I decided to draw the logo. Shoutout to @ArieTheFloof [https://pawb.social/u/ArieTheFloof] and @KoboldCoterie [https://pawb.social/u/KoboldCoterie] for jumping in to help!
1.4.0 New Feature: Properties
[Worldbuilding] Bat Wings
When it comes to anthropomorphic animals, designs tend to go in one of these directions: * Embrace animal design and differences in anatomy * Mostly human design with animal aesthetic What I’m trying to envision is a world where furries evolved closer to the human design, but not completely. What I would like to discuss is, how do you think bats would have developed, particularly their wings? The “easiest” implementation is give them back wings. But that doesn’t make sense evolutionarily. Bat wings are formed from their arms and “hands”. Having an extra set of limbs emerge that replicates their “arm wings” they lost seems unlikely. Ok, so how about leaving the wings on their arms? Sure. But now I want to toss another problem in this world. Hands gave us the ability to manipulate our environment and make tools. I feel that would have been a necessary step towards human-like intelligence. Let’s say their phalanges shrunk to be more finger like. This along with being human-sized should make their wings useless, right? Even if they kept long phalanges like they do now, would they still be able to have true flight? If I assume the ability to fly is highly diminished, then the conclusion I’m making is that bats would prefer to maximize the ability to use their hands. In this world, bats would surgically remove the wing skin between their fingers to give them proper hands. Some may even remove all of it (and some fringe would keep it) allowing their arms to fit in standard clothing. So, what do you think? Does this design make sense for this type of world? How would you design a bat?
That's a Big Gherkin
Fediverse Single Sign On
I think I joined the Fediverse misunderstanding how it works. I went in under the belief that: - Under the hood, everything is an ActivityPub post - Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, and PeerTube are “interfaces” or “views” for the underlying ActivityPub post - All 4 can interact with eachother - I only need 1 account For the last point I found out that the answer is “yes…but actually no.” Based on the “ActivityPub Magic [https://pawb.social/post/73555]” thread (or Mastodon Post [https://furry.engineer/users/bristle/statuses/110557456589239497]?), I see that Mastodon users can reply to the Lemmy thread (with some limitations) and follow Communities. Cool. I see a Lemmy thread and a Mastodon post as serving 2 different purposes. Sometimes they overlap. But maybe I want to post something on my Mastodon timeline just for something general going on in my life that I don’t necessarily want to post into a Lemmy community. Now let’s say I started with a Lemmy account. Unless I’m wrong, the only way to make that post would be to make a Mastodon account that’s seperate from my existing Lemmy account. I thought part of the beauty of the Fediverse was that someone could be following “me” and choose whatever “interface” they want. Instead it looks like they would be following “me@Lemmy”, “me@Mastodon”, “me@PixelFed”, and “me@PeerTube”. And then there’s the whole defederation of instances maybe requiring multiple accounts, but that’s another topic. Now, to be clear I do see the use case of having multiple accounts for different instances (e.g. having a furry account and a general one). Is there a roadmap for “merging” accounts between platforms? I understand that question might be more towards Lemmy/Mastodon/etc. developers than server admins, but just seeing if anyone here knows.
