Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
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No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
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No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
Fuck me for needing to use a car.
Fuck cars!
One thing I don’t understand about Lemmy is, how do you do stuff across instances? For example I’m on Lemmy.world, but clicking a link to that sub Lemmy takes me to Lemmy.ml, where I’m obviously not logged on. How am I expected to interact with that community?
Edit: I was able to find and post this comment by manually typing in the address into the URL, which surely isn’t how this is supposed to work
Ideally users shouldn't paste the whole url into a link, like https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars but just /c/[email protected] because the second link shows you the same community, but stays within your own instance so you're still logged in.
However, I think there is also some work being done to make it so tha this correction is done automatically.
surely isn’t how this is supposed to work
It doesn't. OP put in a hard-coded link in their post body. You can see it under the "hamburger menu/more -> view source" button:
[@fuck\_cars](https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars)
I saw this post browsing All on my mander.xyz instance, and I can click and reply to it transparently, without ever visiting lemmy.ml or lemmy.world. I guess if you wanted to hard-link a community inside a comment body, you would skip the schema/domain name part like this?
[this](/c/[email protected])
so my girlfriend lives in a different city, far enough away that my local transit network can't get me there and i have to take amtrak. i really enjoy taking amtrak.
when she comes here, she drives. and it turns out that really stresses her out. so what we've taken to doing is, when we're together, i will take on a chunk of the driving.
because i drive almost never otherwise, it's kinda fun for me. and it gives her a much-needed break. but man, would i ever be happy to not have that even be a problem and just have good urban design with trains and local transit to get around quickly and efficiently, so we wouldn't have to do that in the first place.