@zorinlynx It's nice to have a choice; I'm not really interested in most of the non-geeky parts of furry, and I find a lot of it to be super, super cliquey...but I just don't engage there.
In the early days of furry, you could have a friend tell you about someone and get a phone call just to talk about crap, and get to know someone before taking it online or vice-versa. And on the Fediverse, there's a lot of folks who welcome others to just jump into conversations. There's less of a tendency for conversations to go sideways and end up with attacks. It happens, but I don't see it as much.
Overall, I'm glad that things can feel like they did before, with a lot less of the things I personally don't find attractive in the fandom here, and many of the things I used to, here in spades.