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?
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.
Same. I love racing, karts, formula1, I’m playing VR racing games and my first pc games were Need for Speed Carbon and Most Wanted. I like the engineering aspect behind them, the pistons, the clutches. I’m watching people fixing their cars on youtube etc.
I never owned a car, never will.
Way too expensive. I’ve taken my bike to work for the past four years. Over 20.000 thousand miles. I’ve only spent £1000. That’s £250 a year for work commute.
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.
Well, just being the change you want to see. Being vocal about building less car-dependent cities leads to more people being aware a car isn’t necessarily critical to daily life which leads to people voting for people who share those same ideas. Sure it won’t be tomorrow but as someone who hates driving I’m definitely making an effort to drive as little as possible and voting for that lifestyle.
But to answer op’s question, Lemmy’s population as a whole is probably very techy/urbany and young. Very conducive to living in a major city where it’s possible to live without a car.
Personally I don’t want to ever live in a major city like that. Rural or small town life is where it’s at - I have multiple cars (paid off) and own my own house and land all for an affordable price on a middle class wage. Around these parts, you must have a car or be fit enough to walk long distances carrying stuff.
I’m curious to see how hot of a take this is on here. In my experience online it’s an insane viewpoint to hold apparently.
I think a lot of the “city people” are trapped in their City Life and they don’t realize it, and have probably never known anything else. When you get set up with your whole life in one area, and build your routines around that familiar infrastructure, you probably just think that’s how life is supposed to be.
I’ve spent enough time in several of America’s largest cities to know that it’s a massive pile of bullshit hassles. It’s nice to visit a big city for a few days or a week to see new things, and enjoy the expensive conveniences. But before long it’s enough of that, and I just want to be away from all the people and their bullshit systems and hierarchies and routines. Out here in Freedomland, I have room to breathe and I can do whatever I want.
I mean I think it’s just different strokes for different folks. There’s a reason 9 million people live in NYC and 4 million in LA. I was in the military for a while and being stationed in very rural places were you could buy a mansion for like 200k was just depressing for me. You had to drive 20 mins to get anywhere, nothing “big” was ever happening in town, food options were lacking. I don’t like guns or cars, which seemed like the biggest appeal for people to live out in the sticks. In the city I can walk 2 minutes to the grocery store, 5 mins to 10 different restaurants, 15 mins to downtown for big events. There’s always something happening and I like knowing if I ever feel like randomly going out there’s something random going on. And paradoxically I feel like living in the city you deal with people way less. No one talks to each other, everyone has something to do and we just ignore each other in pursuit of that. In small towns it was always a 10 minute exchange of pleasantries with the waiter before I could order a beer.
I’m glad options exist for everyone, I like to sample the culture of a big city but much prefer to avoid that rat race.
Back home, I could own more than an acre of land, not be told what I can and can’t build on it and pay less than what I bought my house for with .25 acre. I would have to drive an hour and 40 min to get to anything I’m personally interested in if I still lived there though which is why I moved to a city.
Growing up I was on a school bus for 45 min to 1hr each way and my parents drove 40+miles each way to work. Now my kid can walk to school or a park, we have non-white neighbors and it’s a short distance to so many experiences. The opportunities here heavily out weighed having more land but as I get more in to cars, I can’t help but wish we had a double lot for car storage
Probably true.
Porque no los dos? I have loved cars my whole life, have driven and worked on many different cars and am currently in the market for something 20 years old that’s a little too fast, but I still like my cities walkable and wish driving wasn’t the only option in most places here in the US.
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.
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Meh, it was a good rant. No worries!
Agreed. I’m a car guy, have been working on them for decades, owned a shop at one point and worked at a racing component manufacturer for a good bit.
Car enthusiasts come in a lot of stripes and a super broad community may not gain as much focus right away as communities around a single topic, such as weird cars, etc. I’m subscribed to a weird car community here and there’s a bunch of cool stuff being posted.
I’d say just keep the faith and keep posting great content and car subs on Lemmy will evolve to a point that attracts plenty of subscribers. I’m personally subscribing to every such community I come across…
You can’t just talk about this weird cars sub without mentioning the name of it for others to join.
Also if you know of a classic car one, post that as well. I searched the communities and I think I found one and it had so few posts on it. This is especially sad coming from Reddit where the classic car sub would get at least a couple of posts a day. Even if they were of some random dude posting a picture or two, that’s still nice to see.
Haven’t linked to another community before so I’ll probably get this wrong, but it’s here:
https://lemmy.world/c/weirdwheels
Hopefully there’s a bot or helpful admin that can reply with the correct way to do this. The link should get you there though.
And don’t be shy! Start a community for classic cars yourself and add some build posts or show coverage! I’ve probably got some content I can toss in there…!
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: !weirdwheels@lemmy.world
Hey hey! There it is. Good bot! Will use this as an example going forward.
There’s also just fewer people in general here.
There’s a lot of internet-style weirdos on the site.
Just wanted to share my enthusiasm about finding out about Super Formula. Currently watching all the races and qualifying of this year and really impressed by the quality of racing and broadcast
Super Formula is great. Check out !indycar@lemmy.world too if you’re not already familiar with it. Lots of great racing series out there that don’t have an over dramaticised netflix series
Heh, TRAFFIC. Nice one.
Why did it take so long for someone to get it?
I like cars… but what do you want me to post about?
I dont like posting pictures of cars nobody can afford and there aint much point in posting a picture of a toyota aygo…
We have all seen a ferrari or whatever.
Posting upcoming 2024 models?
Honestly I like seeing any random daily driver that is well cared for by its owner. Knowing the goods and bads of that car.
Also cars differ from country to country so it’s nice seeing what others get
Personally I find automotive news to be more interesting than any one specific model. Upcoming releases, especially ones within the realm of possibility for mere mortals, or industry trends and sales figures are just the kind of stuff I get interested in.
Reddit didn’t start with a huge amount of car subreddits, it built over time.
Part of the problem I’m seeing is that people are expecting the new communities here to have an instant following but really things should be posted to a single larger community until it’s big enough to splinter off.
Feels bad man, definitely missing /cars in all this switch.
I honestly didn’t know there was a car community on here. I’m not necessarily sure what to share in a general car community though. A lot of the car specific discussion for my car happens on forums. Idk, I’m down to try out the community here too
c/cars might be tiny in comparison to r/cars but imo post quality here is a lot better, and Lemmy in general seems to attract tech users more than car guys from what I’ve seen.
It’s also a good thing that on this platform, there’s no teenagers commenting stuff like “are you a Honda salesman 😭😭😭” or “are you 40 💀” just because you buy a practical family car instead of that WRX STI.
I mean, ngl the WRX is a pretty beast car nowadays. Kinda sad the stick is gone from the Impreza base and the Crosstrek now, though.
Well we all know that sticks don’t sell in the States so…it’s inevitable for mainstream car brands to drop manual really.
Meanwhile the new gen tacoma still offers a stick in a truck. Subaru has lost their way.
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Nah, boomers are still on the best platforms to talk about car stuff, old school forums.
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I think a lot of us were just lurkers or introverts. The thought of a broad audience can be a bit nerve-racking. I was active in the small WRX subreddit before all this, but never posted to any “main” subs.
That said the community here is indeed very small so once we get over the “ah general community = too many people” feeling there will be more posts. True for myself at least.
The /WRX subreddit had more traffic than the entire car sub gets on Lemmy.
