This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
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There's value to both, but I understand the frustration. A big part of building a world without cars is developing an anti-car culture though, and memes are very effective at that.
This question came up often in the old /r/fuckcars and the response there was typically that discussion of solutions and activism made more sense in other communities like NotJustBikes and WalkableCities. I don't know if those have corresponding federated communities yet though.
There is a fledgling Not Just Bikes community. I would post a link but i dont know how in Jerboa.
Definitely need more content and engagement.
Are you able to provide a link now? Or at least mention which instance it's on?
Thanks for plugging those other communities.
The sidebar mentions one of the community goals is to discuss car alternatives. I do see some posts like this after scrolling more. Maybe I just need to spend more time here to calibrate. Anyway, I hope that I get to see more posts in the future that discuss alternatives and opportunities for activism!
The name wasn't a give away? You can join our https://slrpnk.net/c/urbanism community if you want.
OK thanks for the tip.
Just found the instance, and I am someone who really wants to talk about urbanism and changing north america's car-centric design. I hope that I can contribute to this /c/ with conversation and examples of why "fuck cars".
The same issue is with any anti-something community and also on reddit. Eventually they turn into picture-of-text karma farms.
It's really easy to unite people in negativity when being against something in common, but it's a lot harder to unite them in being for any solution.
I dislike the idea of copying subreddits to here for that reason. The problems follow along too.
It might have been more useful on Reddit, because of the massive userbase, to shout out anti messages from the roof tops, hoping to sway some opinions, but without any suggestions for solutions it's just rabble-rabble.
Imagine if the president said "look anti-car people, we hear you, what do you want?"
And it would still be "rabble rabble", because the anti-car communies consist of people who want to: ban large SUVs and trucks, have more public transport, ride their bicycles, have more pedestrian streets, change the property zoning, change politics, etc.etc. and they don't necessarily agree on what they want.