Kinmunity

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Kinmunity was an online community and resource website for otherkin, fictionkin, therians, vampires, plural systems, the other individuals who have non-human identities. It replaced the now-defunct Wulf Howl in 2014. The site contained both resource and community sections.

Purpose

Kinmunity was initially founded to to be both a resource hub and friendly community for otherkin, therianthropes, and vampires. As time went on, the site grew to support various other identities within the alterhuman community, including but not limited to: fictionkin, plural systems, otherhearted people, soulbonders, and copinglinkers.

History

Kinmunity was first founded as Wulf Howl by Naia Okami in 2011. On November 25th 2014, a message on Wulf Howl's Facebook page indicated that its server hosting provider terminated its account without notice and that a server move and restore from backup would be attempted. On November 27th 2014, Naia announced that she had lost access to the decryption key to restore Wulf Howl's backup and that the site would be rebuilt from scratch. On December 26th 2014, Wulf Howl's Facebook page announced that the forum would be rebranded to Kinmunity and that the new site was now accepting members. Naia has stated that she retains copies of the backup key for the new site in multiple locations.

In early 2017, there was a banning of prominent members, most notably Seraphyna, and then an exodus of many other staff and members. This occurred for many reasons. Seraphyna seemed to be singled out and and made an example of for sharing information from Kinmunity on another site. This was strictly against Kinmunity's site policy, even if the information was originally your own.

Another problem at this time was the questioning of new members. While no harsh drilling was actually taking place, there were many complaints from the new members joining Kinmunity from Tumblr and other social media sites. Seraphyna was also singled out for her approach to questioning new members. After questioning within introductions became more difficult, many people left because they felt that Kinmunity was catering to the Tumblrkin and fluff in the community.

On July 18th 2018, Kinmunity closed down and all posts on its forums were once again deleted.

On September 25, 2018 a new version of Kinmunity was opened for public beta. After a beta period, Kinmunity 2.0 went live on 02/01/2019.

Kinmunity was closed again in late September 2022; Naia claims this closure will be permanent.