Coming from Reddit, there were multiple car-related subs and they all saw some fairly heavy traffic with lots of posts and comments. Heck, even some of the model-specific ones seem to get more interaction than this sub does. What’s the deal?
Very good observation. I think it’s really true to some extent as early adopters of Lemmy are seemingly interested Linux, programming, memes and activities.
Automobile enthusiasts are just arriving from Reddit. I was into tanks, rare planes and things like that, for which there just isn’t any community right now.
And I miss the daily 🍑 joke on my favourite subreddit of an anime. Which is why I still kept my Reddit account and only lurk on reddit.com now.
Bonus +500,000 karma to you if you get what I meant here lol
Feels bad man, definitely missing /cars in all this switch.
Same, it seems that A LOT of peeps are still on r/cars nowadays. I feel like most active posters haven’t made the switch to Lemmy yet for various reasons.
And the subs for my car. The Subbie community used to be fairly active.
Same for the Miata community. I miss my daily dose of pop up headlights.
Heh, TRAFFIC. Nice one.
Well Lemmy is still mostly populated by left leaning tech enthusiasts and for people like this, cars are just a tool or even something that should be banned at all cost.
I’m a left leaning tech enthusiast and I’m also a hard-core car guy. I
I don’t really see those two groups being mutually exclusive.
:/ the overlap is minimal. Try to find a republican in the fuckcars community.
Overlap between Republicans and c/fuckcars might be minimal, but overlap between car enthusiasts and c/fuckcars is surprisingly large. It turns out that a bunch of folks who love the machines and the driving and the car culture are, in fact, capable of understanding that those experiences can get diminished when you force a bunch of normies to do it and clog up the roads.
Besides, in my case at least, the fact that I can use my bicycle to get around town means that all my cars can be project cars, instead of having to own something boring and reliable.
I love my summer car, working on it, driving it down back roads, taking it to autocross and lapping days, but if I never have to drive in stop & go traffic when I’m running late ever again, I’d never complain.
Bit harsh your opinion touched a nerve apparently to get downvoted. I think you expressed yourself politely and sincerely and you may also be right. Reddit had years to cultivate subs by and for people who are not terminally online, and those are the people who will be slowest to adopt complicated fediverse tech.
i’ll be honest, you’re not wrong. cars are fucking lame. My dad was a mechanic, but over the years I discovered that I REALLY hate cars. Buying a car carries all the thrill and excitement of buying a used refrigerator. I do not understand the appeal or why people fetishize them like they do. they’re too expensive, they make our cities suck, and the people that want the “cool car” are always the worst kind of douchebag. I just don’t get it I guess.
When is buying anything exciting? Most people who are into cars like driving them, not buying them.
Generally the excitement comes from the anticipation of having a thing that you really want. Since I only buy cars out of necessity, and I don’t enjoy driving or owning them, It get’s really hard to look forward to it with anything other than dread. If I didn’t have to drive places occasionally I’d roll that thing into a lake and let the fish make their homes inside.
I like cars. Here’s my humble daily
S197 Mustang’s exterior is timeless, CMV
I really like the look of the 2024s. They look mean af
I used to have a 1.8 litre VW golf petrol turbo. The power to weight ratio of that car was formidable.
Heavy clutch (required).
Sport suspension.
Bucket seats.
All factory.
V6 and V8 cars would be left behind at the lights. Their shame was palpable as my ‘girl car’ left them in the dust. She was a sleeper.
Roundabouts were my slingshots.
Best driving days of my life.
I truly miss that car. She was amazing.
I have a 4WD now. I may as well be in a wheelchair, pushing through syrup.
Mine is a stock v6 from 2012. It makes 300hp and recently got gapped by a kia soul. The handling is great but man its sooo slow.
Only by American standards man, your V6 S197 is way faster than like 90% of cars in rest of the world lol.
Thanks man, I’ll keep flexing on Taiwanese cars in the meantime
There are magnitudes more users on the “Fuck Cars” community. You guys might wanna watch yourselves. lol
Fuckcars communities are more of a “we hate the societal effects of car dependency” and less of a “we hate cars everywhere”.
Many users there don’t seem to be capable of differentiating those two things.
This was very much the case on Reddit from what I’ve seen.
Believe it or not, some of us “fuck cars” people are also car enthusiasts.
It’s kind of like how there are a bunch of people who like riding horses, but probably wouldn’t want them to be everybody’s primary mode of transportation.
I’ve always just used car specific forums for car stuff. Though I gotta say the newer my cars get the shittier the forums are. Like damn man you put a K&N filter in it? That’s some CrAzY mods bro
Can always start a flame war about oil that’ll get some clicks
Though I gotta say the newer my cars get the shittier the forums are.
My theory is that the older a car gets, the percentage of owners who are enthusiasts increases. Some new cars get bought by enthusiasts, but a lot get bought by folks who want something new/fast/high-tech/whatever, but don’t actually care that much and are happy to use it until it’s no longer the new hotness and then get rid of it. In contrast, folks who own old cars (and join forums about them) are doing so because they really like that particular car for whatever reason.
I think Facebook killed forums. With rare exception, they’re all a ghost town. I’m excited about the idea of the fediverse, and the threadiverse specifically, bringing back forums. I think we should work toward that goal.
I see the anti-car subscriptions getting much more traffic than pro-car subscriptions. It might just be the demographic here is less in to cars and more into city planning.
For sure, though I’ll note I know many people who dislike cars as the dominant form of transportation in a society but are also car enthusiasts from the hobbyist perspective (this would also include me).
Yep, this is me too. I absolutely hate car centric city infrastructure… But am also restoring a classic mini. They’re a cool piece of engineering, just a shit way to transport lots of people
Sounds like me. I love sport cars, but really think that we should use walking, bikes and public transports as as possible.
In my country, Switzerland, it’s clearly possible for people living in the city to have no car. I live on the countryside so it’s not my case, but people rely way too much on cars.
That doesn’t seem very practical. For example, I’ve owned several cars but no one has ever let me plan a city.
How do you get into city planning anyway? I’ve got some sweet plans for a rad city made for motorcycles only.
Simcity skylines scratches that itch for me lol
It could take a while to develop, on Mastodon it took about 2-3 years before folk started tooting about cars (now there is quite a lot of traffic). Also this sub seems quite US-centric, us Europeans see all your big trucks and muscle cars and think nobody will be interested in the superminis most folk drive round here, and a lot of people keep their cars stock as mods are expensive due to extra insurance costs!
I drive a modest VW Polo 6C myself (this is like 90% of a Golf, just slightly smaller) and am quite into detailing, I’d post up more pics but it keeps pissing down here in England at the moment (whilst rest of Europe is roasted by sun so there are often hosepipe bans!)
This problem isn’t exclusive to just c/cars, r/cars (on Reddit) have always been very American-centric since forever. Looks like things won’t be changing here unfortunately.
I’m a car guy. Happy to talk to you.
Ummm what do I do?
Post your first car and your favorite memory with it.
Could be hard. I’m old. My first car is an actual photograph. I’d have to find it, shoot a photo and upload. How about a car I just bought
It’s worse if you wrench or make cars like me. Not a deep complaint, I know why younger people jack metal less often (money, PERSISTENT SPACE, access to skills, complexity of modern cars etc) but result is, little construction and fabrication.
Sadly most of what still goes on is in boomer bigot forums, one of which id been a contributor to for 20 years, have a fuckton of docs manuals how tos parts lists etc, basically froze me out when I put on all my websites “black lives matter as much as anyone’s” and “racism is white people’s responsibility”.
Lol, I’m an out gay man and that does not exactly make me popular but I survived based on being an old timer there but the BLM thing was the final straw.
Oh man sort I ranted at y’all, won’t do that again, but it’s nice to tell someone!
Here’s my main site since I was talking about it:
I respect your opinion but I disagree with your statement “racism is white peoples responsibility”.
I’m telling you this because I hope it’ll show others that we can have different opinions and still respect each other. That’s what reddit was missing.
There’s a lot of internet-style weirdos on the site.
