This seems like it may be the root cause of the recent server issues, I had to guess. Probably a lot of federation issues if the .ml domains went down all at once. Probably why it's not that smart to use a domain owned by a (nominally) hostile foreign government, just saying...
For the record, we don't 'identify as' animals, either. (You might be confusing furries with therians.) We're just a fandom dedicated to anthropomorphic animals. Most of us have characters we've created that represent us, or idealized versions of us, but if you're referring to folks who believe they actually are an animal, that's not furries. (Or, maybe more accurate, it's a subset of furries.)