But for the life of me I can’t get any engagement on my r/legalcatadvice dupe at !cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world Maybe I should have used the original name. I really miss that one.
Reddit cat subs are tightly knit with people suggesting other related subs for some content. Being able to say “aww, cute angry black cat - this would fit on /r/stealthbombers” that sort of interconnection is difficult on Lemmy making the tangent discovery, reposting and niche cat subs more difficult.
Without the fairly consistent cross posting (and thus part of the discovery), such niche subs are going to be harder to grow a community for.
It might be a bit more feasible if there was a “cats and only cats” lemmy instance where all things cats are posted (compare programming.dev and startrek.website which are two single topic instances and browsing communities on each makes targeted discovery more feasible).
The other part is that those niche cat subs are filled with “normal” people. There usage stats show most people used new.reddit.com or the official mobile app - even before the api changes. Most of those people didn’t leave Reddit (with the exception of a few mods where /r/cathostage is restricted but /r/cathostages which was created in response has even more activity).
This also gets to a “there aren’t enough fun things on Lemmy”. The flairs of /r/cathostages are fun.
If you look at /r/leagalcatadvice you will see that most of its activity is from crossposted (not by original poster either) into the sub and then people are having fun there.
The software supporting fun (flairs, easy cross posting) and culture are currently working against Lemmy for niche cat subs. Consider that !cat@lemmy.world has 84 users per day and fewer posts per day than /r/oneorangebraincell - it might not be able to support the range of niche cat subs that Reddit is able to.
I’d also point out that Lemmy’s 40,000 active users and 400k total accounts is comparable to the subscriber base of /r/oneorangebraincell that shows 442k accounts… just for pictures of orange cats that share the one brain cell.
I think you have a good point about flairs. The lack of flairs is especially noticable in sports communities. On Reddit, a lot of sports subreddits would have flairs of team logos, which set up for a lot of friendly teasing between fandoms. The lack of flairs in Lemmy takes away the teasing because nobody knows who supports what fandom.
There’s also a similarity between cat communities and sports communities in that there’s probably not enough people to support individual team communities similar to how there isn’t enough people to support more focused cat communities like one orange brain cell.
I just made a new community yesterday about objects that looks sort of like private parts, if that helps? !mildlyprivates@lemmy.world
I’ve also got cute bugs and sea critters here: !awwnverts@lemmy.world
And cute bees here: !beebutts@lemmy.world
But for the life of me I can’t get any engagement on my r/legalcatadvice dupe at !cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world Maybe I should have used the original name. I really miss that one.
Reddit cat subs are tightly knit with people suggesting other related subs for some content. Being able to say “aww, cute angry black cat - this would fit on /r/stealthbombers” that sort of interconnection is difficult on Lemmy making the tangent discovery, reposting and niche cat subs more difficult.
Without the fairly consistent cross posting (and thus part of the discovery), such niche subs are going to be harder to grow a community for.
It might be a bit more feasible if there was a “cats and only cats” lemmy instance where all things cats are posted (compare programming.dev and startrek.website which are two single topic instances and browsing communities on each makes targeted discovery more feasible).
The other part is that those niche cat subs are filled with “normal” people. There usage stats show most people used new.reddit.com or the official mobile app - even before the api changes. Most of those people didn’t leave Reddit (with the exception of a few mods where /r/cathostage is restricted but /r/cathostages which was created in response has even more activity).
This also gets to a “there aren’t enough fun things on Lemmy”. The flairs of /r/cathostages are fun.
If you look at /r/leagalcatadvice you will see that most of its activity is from crossposted (not by original poster either) into the sub and then people are having fun there.
The software supporting fun (flairs, easy cross posting) and culture are currently working against Lemmy for niche cat subs. Consider that !cat@lemmy.world has 84 users per day and fewer posts per day than /r/oneorangebraincell - it might not be able to support the range of niche cat subs that Reddit is able to.
I’d also point out that Lemmy’s 40,000 active users and 400k total accounts is comparable to the subscriber base of /r/oneorangebraincell that shows 442k accounts… just for pictures of orange cats that share the one brain cell.
I think you have a good point about flairs. The lack of flairs is especially noticable in sports communities. On Reddit, a lot of sports subreddits would have flairs of team logos, which set up for a lot of friendly teasing between fandoms. The lack of flairs in Lemmy takes away the teasing because nobody knows who supports what fandom.
There’s also a similarity between cat communities and sports communities in that there’s probably not enough people to support individual team communities similar to how there isn’t enough people to support more focused cat communities like one orange brain cell.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !mildlyprivates@lemmy.world, !awwnverts@lemmy.world, !beebutts@lemmy.world, !cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world
Good bot