1. Joined IRC this year.

An illustration of IRC, with logos of several clients, the channel syntax, and the usual formatting of a message.

IRC is a rather old chatting platform, possibly one of the oldest on the net! I’ve decided to try out IRC when I saw “Quassel IRC” preinstalled on Lubuntu, after that, I decided to register my first IRC account, on the Libera.Chat network as swee using my galaxy tab 3.

What stood out most was some popular off-topic channels (Like ## and ##chat) and the ##furry channel, but we’ll get to that later.

The Libera.Chat network has an interesting but rather friendly community, I spent most of my time staying awake the whole night, using my tab 3 to chat on IRC. It was a nice experience actually! People were quite impressed with my skills for such a young age.

IRC also changed my path when it came to programming, my most successful projects being MeowNexUS and Codename IRCat.

2. Became a furry.

rawr I became a furry :3

Now this is another one of the major changes I had.

Either last year or two years ago, I tried to become a furry on scratch. Rookie mistake: I told my parents about it.

This time, in the ##furry channel on libera, I’ve decided to fake myself as a furry with the nickname sweeCat though the “pretending” didn’t last long when I began making fursonas and ref sheets, months later I decide “fuck it, I’m a furry now.”

So I basically faked it ‘till I made it.

Honestly, I absolutely adore furry roleplay (as long as it’s SFW & wholesome), although the thought of being e-cuddled lots (and enjoying it) might sound weird to you, but whatever, it’s cute :3

3. Got a domain & VPS.

Yeah, all this work to get my website up, and this discourse instance too!
I now get an allowance of $5/mo so it’s pretty easy if I get a budget VPS like I have right now.
It’s not that much work for me to moderate all of this, so yeah :3

Other things:

Joined discord
Tried the Mastodon Fediverse
Joined Matrix
Started migrating to Linux