Are there really so few car enthusiasts on this site? This sub seems to have such little traffic. What gives?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
My experience in US cities is that they are so poorly planned that I understand why people would view them negatively and think they’re overrated.
Then when I graduated from college and moved overseas I got it because the design of cities was moreso for them to be livable spaces and communities than the mutated abomination that were the two US cities I spent most of my childhood in.
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.
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).
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.
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
I would quite like a project car sub, This one doesn’t feel very focused. That’s my thought anyway.
EDIT: I just added my 3 project cars, I have literally thousands of pictures of the work, I may try and compile a cross section post of the work I have done on each at some point if people might like that.
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.
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…!
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 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
For me, a category as broad as this one is unappealing. I love all sorts of cars but rarely what’s posted in a car such as this. “Air-cooled VWs”, “off-roading” or “vintage and patina” is right up my alley but there’s a bunch that’s not.
But if a broad category as “cars” gets little traffic, I can’t even imagine how dead a sub that’s focused on “pink VW 7 window buses from Wyoming” would get.
Hi friend, this is me for sure. I love sim racing and rally, but I hate that modern US cities aren’t planned for foot and bike travel. I also enjoy the engineering and design skills that go into making a nice car. I just think they are neat!
I am definitely a car fan, I have 0 money to work on cars or build them, and I have almost 0 technical knowledge about them except specific cars. So, with that said I would love to see more but it's hard for me to contribute.
I currently drive an EV and we all know what car enthusiasts feel about EVs... I personally have grown to be fascinated with em
I think it’s the demographic and the lack of mass adoption (car people tend to be part of the latter unless they are nerds). Model specific subs were hit and miss. For example, the Porsche sub was awesome but BMW was toxic af and tiring with everybody shitting on the new designs constantly and not contributing to the discussion much beyond that, so I definitely don’t miss it. That said, I think forums like bimmerport and rennlist are going to see an increase in traffic as people leave reddit behind, if Lemmy doesn’t end up absorbing the exodus.
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.
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.
I made one post already, i just feel like I’d be spamming if I kept posting with so few other members. Maybe that’s just in my head, because I’m sure i could post some interesting content lol
I’ve posted a similar thought other places, but coming from reddit–where you are as good as anonymous on all but the most niche subs–it’s tough to get back into the mindset of posting to build community. It feels like coming full circle back to the topic-specific forums where you recognized a good 25%-50% of the people commonly posting and you didn’t have to worry about your voice getting drowned out by random chatter and bots.
All that to say, I personally think posting semi-relevant or memey material, just for the sake of spurring conversation and getting to know other members is fine and probably a good thing while things are getting rolling.
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!
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.
Thank you. (and by that phrase I mean responsible for dealing with the mess we have now; and specifically not guilty for creating it im the first place. And because were talking about only slogans, handwaving how racism unfolds today.)
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
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