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Community search for vet advice (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cosmicrookie to c/asklemmy

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Is there a community for asking questions about pet symptoms? Maybe a place where vets share advice?

I already go to my local vet with our dogs when needed but we have no vets for aquatic animals here and I could use some advice about an issue some of my fish have.

I could imagine though that it could also be a good place to share experiences and advice about more obscure issues for any pet, like SLO in dogs. We got a diagnosis from the vet, but a lot more advice online about it.

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[–] cosmicrookie 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have no problem creating one but I expect to find it difficult to manage and attract users to it.

[–] GONADS125 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah attracting (active) users is the real challenge...

I created [email protected] and hoped that I could cultivate some active posters before I ran out of my years worth of content from r/vans on reddit, but that didn't happen..

I haven't given up on it (definitely took a hiatus tho..) and need to post some new material, but it's not easy to cultivate active communities. Especially when all of life's bullshit gets in the way.

But I remember early communities on reddit where I was one of like 5 active posters for a long time, then users would eventually overwhelm the community. r/MisleadingThumbnails is an example.

[–] betheydocrime 2 points 1 year ago

I think the way to go right now is to create or post in broader, more top-level kind of communities. Lemmy doesn't really have a lot of traffic, and what would probably be a small or medium community over on Reddit is a niche community over here.

To avoid that, find or make something like /c/shoes then post your Vans content there. You may find a larger audience more quickly, and can break out in to smaller subcommunities when there's enough content submitters to justify it

[–] cheese_greater 1 points 1 year ago

Just do it and let us all know/have a grand opening