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For me also: community. I love the F1 community discussing the off-track banter, the drama, the memes, that has grown immensely since Drive to Survive. Here's a

by jug 5y ago

For me also: community. I love the F1 community discussing the off-track banter, the drama, the memes, that has grown immensely since Drive to Survive. Here's a shout-out to www.reddit.com/r/formula1! It has maybe become my favorite subreddit on that site. Professionally moderated with semi-regular appearances of drivers or team representatives for Q&A's as well. Every practice session, qualification, race also gets a live thread so that if you're Forever Alone in this interest, there are friendly people with reactions and jokes over there in those live chats! :)

ChildOfChaos 5y ago
Eh, it's kinda a cess pit. It's good for following news though. Certainly don't follow the race weekend live threads, when sorted by new which is the default for those, it's Toxic as hell, in a lot of other threads most people repeat the same nonsense as if they don't know anything about the sport. As you mention it's grown a huge amount since the hugely fake and misleading drive to survive which means sadly it's a lot of those clueless people that have come and it's suffered from it, constantly repeating the same nonsense narratives, i perfer just to see it as a way to aggravate news and then switch off and just enjoy the races.
toyg 5y ago
What, no mention of r/formuladank ? Once you look past the neofascist sympathies of moderators, it can be a pretty good source of content. All r/formula1 memes are born there first. The Alphamaxnova1 shorts were <chef kiss>!
- mhh__ 5y ago
  Formuladank used to be much better before the sport exploded a few a years ago.
mdoms 5y ago
/r/formula1 is one of the worst communities I have ever encountered. Every comment on every post is the lowest low effort garbage you can imagine and it suffers hugely from that tunnel vision effect where only one opinion is allowed per topic and anything deviating from the hivemind is quickly buried.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  >every post is the lowest low effort garbage you can imagine and it suffers hugely from that tunnel vision effect where only one opinion is allowed per topic and anything deviating from the hivemind is quickly buried Honestly, this happens in every on-line community with a rabid fanbase. I see it here too, way more often than I would like.

by jug 5y ago

ChildOfChaos 5y ago

Eh, it's kinda a cess pit. It's good for following news though. Certainly don't follow the race weekend live threads, when sorted by new which is the default for those, it's Toxic as hell, in a lot of other threads most people repeat the same nonsense as if they don't know anything about the sport. As you mention it's grown a huge amount since the hugely fake and misleading drive to survive which means sadly it's a lot of those clueless people that have come and it's suffered from it, constantly repeating the same nonsense narratives, i perfer just to see it as a way to aggravate news and then switch off and just enjoy the races.

toyg 5y ago

What, no mention of r/formuladank ? Once you look past the neofascist sympathies of moderators, it can be a pretty good source of content. All r/formula1 memes are born there first. The Alphamaxnova1 shorts were <chef kiss>!

mhh__ 5y ago
Formuladank used to be much better before the sport exploded a few a years ago.

mdoms 5y ago

/r/formula1 is one of the worst communities I have ever encountered. Every comment on every post is the lowest low effort garbage you can imagine and it suffers hugely from that tunnel vision effect where only one opinion is allowed per topic and anything deviating from the hivemind is quickly buried.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>every post is the lowest low effort garbage you can imagine and it suffers hugely from that tunnel vision effect where only one opinion is allowed per topic and anything deviating from the hivemind is quickly buried Honestly, this happens in every on-line community with a rabid fanbase. I see it here too, way more often than I would like.