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.
We must set ourselves apart from reddit. Birb content only.
I’m struggling to figure out how much of this is photoshop
It’s a birb eating an apple.
Ik it’s probably real but something about it feels pretty unnatural. Maybe the background’s contrast against the birb, the smallness of the claws, the apple looking really smooth, the birb looking really smooth…
I think the apple looks so evenly lit it seems unreal, but a bird holding a piece of fruit is such an easy situation to create I feel like it’d be harder to Photoshop that than it would be to just give a bird a piece of fruit for real.
Birbs are at the very core of the internet. They are the stuff of the deep web.
I’m picturing some sort of high tech containment field. Perhaps somewhere deep in a sub-basement laboratory at the Gore Naval Research Base in Antarctica. At the center, held aloft by powerful magnets, are two birds rapidly spinning, emitting an eerie blue glow. A series of tubes, illuminated from within by this mysterious ether, branch off in all directions. This is the core.
It’s the Ornitho-Accellerator
Kbin agrees. Robin is our unofficial mascot (I think)
That includes birds with arms, yeah?
Arms are not mandatory but they are encouraged.
Ah yes… 👀
https://lemmy.world/c/birdsarentreal
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !birdsarentreal@lemmy.world
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?
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.
Using Voyager (Wefwef), the second link opened for me directly on my Lemmy instance. So I could directly comment / subscribe etc.
Liftoff handled both URLs and gives an option to view it on my home instance.
That’s handy! Voyager/Wefwef doesn’t have that yet.
Birb tax! This is my handsome muscovy duck Antonio. He’s great
I was physically harassed by the last muscovy I encountered…
Like aggressively, or did it just wany food? My boy harasses me when he wants snacks lol
Aggression is in the eye of the beholder.
He wanted food, I wanted food, and he wasn’t getting my food. He could have taken the rejection a little more politely.
I see lol. They are dramatic birds. I gave mine the last of their food one day(I picked up more later that evening) and Antonio got into the empty bag and pouted. I removed him from the bag and he grabbed it and threw it and looked grumpy. Mind you, he had a bowl full of food. He just likes eating from a bag. When I brought the new bag of feed home, he got super in my face and was hella impatient when I was opening it.
Hah! Antonio sounds great.
He is lol. He’s by far my fave out of my 10 ducks. He’s also the oldest. He turned 4 this year but still acts like I’m his mama lol.
Antonio is an excellent name for such a dapper duck.
Thank you!
Why do you have a pet dinosaur?
Just for fun