I’ve been informed of an attempt to consolidate all the Tesla communities into teslamotors@lemmy.zip (for Lemmy.world users, you can still access it here: https://lemmy.world/c/teslamotors@lemmy.zip).

I’m interested in hearing the community’s thoughts on this. Consolidation is the name-of-the-game right now in Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to have critical mass especially as tons of different communities are split off like this.

/r/RealTesla from Reddit was necessary in the 2010s where Elon Musk was running popular and it was impossible to get a critical word in about bad Tesla service, the lies from Tesla’s sales about their fuel gauges or even have awareness of how explosive Li-ion batteries are.

Today, its becoming clear that Tesla Lies (led by Elon Musk) is the norm. And we can see that today a “general Lemmy” community about Tesla that its possible to be critical about Tesla even on a Tesla-focused community.

That being said: I’m not for closing down /c/RealTesla. We need a “signpost” for the /r/RealTesla Redditors who are beginning to branch off to Lemmy.

But I’m considering leaving a signpost to teslamotors@lemmy.zip, especially since they’re more active at the moment about Tesla news. I’ll try to keep this community here active as a lifeboat for lost Redditors however.

What does everyone else think?