It’s probably even worse for mostly European brands, Seat (VW’s spanish subbrand with hundreds of thousands of sales in Europe) has literaly less than 5k subs on Reddit, so when I am looking up something, I have to look in the larger VW subreddit hoping that the parts are shared. Citroen, Dacia, Fiat, all have less than 10k subs, despite Europe being flooded with these brands in millions of cars.
From those 5 to 10k subs, at least a third aren’t active users, a majority of those that are active just followed the subreddits because they own or like the brand and only a small amount know the mechanical details, from which once again a small percent will be bothered to help out, so realistically it’s maybe a few hundred people for each brand at most that have a lot of knowledge and help others like on forums back in the day.
It’s probably even worse for mostly European brands, Seat (VW’s spanish subbrand with hundreds of thousands of sales in Europe) has literaly less than 5k subs on Reddit, so when I am looking up something, I have to look in the larger VW subreddit hoping that the parts are shared. Citroen, Dacia, Fiat, all have less than 10k subs, despite Europe being flooded with these brands in millions of cars.
From those 5 to 10k subs, at least a third aren’t active users, a majority of those that are active just followed the subreddits because they own or like the brand and only a small amount know the mechanical details, from which once again a small percent will be bothered to help out, so realistically it’s maybe a few hundred people for each brand at most that have a lot of knowledge and help others like on forums back in the day.