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.
So, I’m an anomaly, I have no pets at all. I don’t want to have a pet. I don’t like cats, I don’t like dogs. I don’t want a goldfish, even. Congratulations, I felt out of place yesterday. Now, I feel like I should delete my account and disappear.
Well, since you brought it up.
None of us really wanted to say anything.
No! Don’t give up on finding a community to fit into on here!
Right now the reddit migration is still happening, more communities will show up with time.
We can create c/nopets
C/petfree, where you can complain about society pressuring you to have pets you don’t want.
Not an anomaly. So many people don’t have pets as well
As another without pets (I don’t think children count, at least not in my country) you should also feel bad while you’re deleting your account.
you can still annoy the neighbours cats. dont worry. You dont actually need to own one.