Welcome to All The Fuzzy holding page!

What is this?

My idea for this site is to be the best furry website. The best existing analog to my vision would be Itaku. My vision is a combination of Twitter, patreon, artconomy, and furaffinity, not necessarily in that order.

Why?

Each existing site has some issues, FA with its leadership and missing features, twitter…, and patreon likes to ban things on a whim. There has to be a better way. I want a place where people aren’t banned for arguments with a moderator, or because they took a kinky picture. I want a system setup to be able to enforce that vision. By system I mean an organization setup to be resistant to the whims of one and keep the vision alive.

Who am I?

I’ve been a lurker for over 10 years and I’m now trying to find my voice. My background is in embedded systems and security. A website is very much not my background. I’ve started using my l_b_i username a few places. I’m most active on the lemmy instance yiffit.net

The open web

I like the open and free web. The site will be open source and hopefully with a self hosted git. I’m writing it in python on flask. The site itself will an exhaustive API and be friendly to any front-end and tools anyone wants to make for it.

The code is not here now because I want to get a minimum working set before I make it public.

Why not federated?

I don’t know how, and learning web development from the start is enough for me.

Privacy

I don’t want to know anything more than I need to. I don’t want to track you. I might need a way to verify identities if I want to host real adult images and videos. If that is an eventuality, my current thoughts would be just store that the user is verified for that and store the PII offline.

Vision

A self sustaining website people want to use. Confidence that you can post whatever you want, and it will still be allowed tomorrow. A website that understands the value comes from the users, and actions and updates are for them, not for tracking them or selling info to advertisers.
Speaking of money, I would like to integrate a payment processor to support payed subscriptions and payment for commissions. The site can use a fee from these services to pay for itself. The payment processor will be chosen to support the widest range of acceptable content.

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