Please use this thread for daily F1 discussion and to ask questions that don’t warrant their own post.

  • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPM
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    1 year ago

    What do we all think about Bridgestone coming back to F1 as a tyre manufacturer?

    • JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Seems like Pirelli isn’t able to deliver precisely what’s asked and have been making “as close as they can” tires, so sure let’s give Bridgestone a shot.

    • Ecksell@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I dont think a tyre competition would work in this era.

      On a side note, thanks for making this mikeyd, it was much needed. Can it be pinned at the top?

    • sweet_and_full_of_grace@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I imagine that if they win the tender nothing much will change other than the logo.

      I wonder if it would be more interesting to dispose of the monopoly and grades and simply keep the requirements of having tyre changes - perhaps two changes required for some tracks?

      It would probably also require banning exclusive contracts with certain teams, like they had back in the day.

    • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      Due to the size of the community and lack of bots, we currently run a race weekend thread which is pinned to the top currently.

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        1 year ago

        I would suggest at least a seperate race thread. A full weekend one was kinda bothersome towards the end of the race last time.

        • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlOPM
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          1 year ago

          How so?

          Trying to work out what makes sense here is tricky, given then the FP1 thread on reddit for the last race got more comments than our whole race weekend.

          And FP1 barley ran!

  • Morningcoffee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I noticed the c/Formula 1 on Lemmy.world is not on the list of partners.

    Is there any communication or coordination between those two? While this one seems more active, the other one has more members (strangely).

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      1 year ago

      I posted early on in that sub about merging/coordinating with this one and the mod replied they weren’t closing the sub and removed my post. Note there is (or at least was at the time) nothing in the community or instance rules prohibiting discussion of other communities. And also… like… 90% of Lemmy is new users finding new communities (including that mod, whose account was like 4d old at the time). Prohibiting discussion of other communities is just… wildly against the spirit of what’s happening right now. Neither mod group seems to acknowledge the other in at-mentions either.

      Anyway, it’s a small data point but my somewhat speculative take is the mod over there is power tripping and I’ve avoided it since.

      While this one seems more active, the other one has more members (strangely).

      The sub numbers can be confusing to read. I believe when viewing the sub count of a remote community, you see only subscribers from your instance… But when viewing a local community you see all subscribers. At any rate, if you look at each community on its home server you see:

      • Speex@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        To my knowledge we do not have any rules against talking about other communities. I will bring it up with the other mods. With the way Lemmy works there will be other subs of the same name with cross subs. I’m going to be subbed to any F1 sub I can find.

        • PriorProject@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          To my knowledge we do not have any rules against talking about other communities. I will bring it up with the other mods.

          Allowing discussion of other communities does seem to me to be the reasonable take, especially given how early days things are with Lemmy. I hope it remains allowed here. If there’s a rule to be enforced, I would suggest to frame it around promotion in general. Announcing the creation of a related thing (Lemmy community or other) seems quite reasonable. Mentioning it occasionally in on-topic comments also seems reasonable (which is how I would characterize this thread). If a person or group engages in a concerted advertising campaign, an excessive-promotion rule could provide a framework to limit that without impinging on organic discussion of other F1 resources/communities.

          I’m going to be subbed to any F1 sub I can find.

          I certainly get this approach, and encourage folks to do what works for them. For me, I dislike getting lots of dupe posts about major news, and I think that outside of “frontpage” size communities like tech/news Lemmy is still too small to support multiple thriving communities that have 100% overlap. So I’m hoping to see people naturally self-organize into a single main F1 community and as I see this one with better governance and more activity… it’s the one I’m trying to help grow through my contributions.

          Niche subs with partial overlap I definitely support though. Happy to have a separate formuladank, and I’d happily join /c/McLarenMemes or /c/LandoSocials to get more on their niche. But for raceday discussion and my main source of news on the sport, I’m hoping people choose to join into a bigger community rather than have a bunch of under baked vanity communities that each lack the critical-mass to self-sustain.

      • Logan@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for making the effort to coordinate this and post your experience. It makes me feel more confident sticking with this community

    • Omgarm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It seems to have more people commenting though. At least a lot of different profiles.

  • FlayOtters@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Tried an account on a smaller instance since yesterday to avoid hammering the main ones.

    Seems like the posts/comments I made on here weren’t coming through to other instances though.

    Back to lemmy.world