Cars - For Car Enthusiasts

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.

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.

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...

There are magnitudes more users on the "Fuck Cars" community. You guys might wanna watch yourselves. lol

There's also just fewer people in general here.

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?

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

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:

https://www.ramblerlore.com/index.html

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.

We are all busy working on our cars :)

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!)

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.

Heh, TRAFFIC. Nice one.

I like cars. Here's my humble daily

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'm a car guy. Happy to talk to you.

Ummm what do I do?

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.

There's a lot of internet-style weirdos on the site.