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But keep in mind there is no analagous r/RealAudi or r/RealFord to form a baseline.

I've found other car manufacturer-specific subreddits to be significantly less crazy/religious/cultist than r/teslamotors. I don't think there's a real need for that.

I don't disagree. But I've also found them to have fewer influxes of non-owners that are there just to say negative things.

FWIW, I spend some time in both r/teslamotors and r/realtesla. There are pretty clear reasons that both exist, and pretty clear reasons for some frustrations on both sides.

Maybe that fact is telling in itself. No one is preventing anyone from making r/RealFord, I assume.

It is telling. The Tesla fan reddit has 824k subscribers. The BMW reddit? 163k. Audi? 91k.

Tesla attracts a vastly more active audience than most other automakers, and the results are interesting.

One should be REALLY cautious about drawing broad conclusions, positive or negative from the anecdotes from either (r/realtesla or r/teslamotors) group.

I view r/TeslaMotors as a fan club (boring), and r/RealTesla as a Tesla criticism/general EV discussion hub (interesting).

That's actually pretty fair at times, though I find the RealTesla crows to be needlessly acerbic at times. But then again that is often true of the r/TeslaMotors crowd too if someone accidentally "insults" the car in the "wrong" way.

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