I originally joined Reddit in 2011, and in the beginning it was dominated by cat content. It was rare to see a post about dogs. Sometime in the mid 20-teens this phenomenon reversed. It’s always been a “pet theory” of mine that this reversal was due to Reddit becoming mainstream, and that it’s initial nerdy/techie user base preferred cats to dogs.

I think my theory is further supported by Lemmy. It’s pretty clear that most of Lemmy’s user base are techies, and currently it’s dominated by cat content. Just a shower thought. May be wrong.

NOTE: I love dogs and cats. This post isn’t arguing favoritism.

    • Deelala0516@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That gives me an error the URL did not. Idk what I’m doing I guess.

      Yes, I see this is a bot, but not sure if other users have this issue too?

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        1 year ago

        Using Voyager (Wefwef), the second link opened for me directly on my Lemmy instance. So I could directly comment / subscribe etc.

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        Yeah, the “fix” the bot provided is just text for me in Memmy. But the URL I posted works perfect. I imagine from the web this is more useful.