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?

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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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          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.

          See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jp_lligz0