An independent Formula 1 subreddit has caus💟ed a stir with a bold new plan.

r/formula🌜1 has built a remarkable community of 4.8 million users (or drivers, in this case…)

It is currently ranked in the to༒p 1% of subreddits.

“Starting today, we are banning Twitter/X contenജt on r/formula1,” 🎉they revealed on Wednesday.

“We urge 🐭all journalists, creators, photographers and other F1 personalities to also make their content available on alternative platforms.”

They went on to explain: “This subreddit has had restrictions on what content c🙈an be posted for a very long time.

“We’ve had the source rating system that labeled the quality of news sites and is still used for removinꦛg sensationalist and unoriginal articles.

“We’ve al๊so had limitations on Instagram due to its requirement for an account to view posts. There’s no doubt that over the past years Twitter has become a low-quality source: the login requirements, the flood of bots, the prioritization of content from paying users and promotion of𝓀 sensationalist content.

“But unlike with news sites in our source-r🎶ating system, for Twitter there wasn’t really an alternative. But now that viable alternatives are emerging and the proposal thread from 🐬yesterday has shown that the community prefers those alternatives, we think it’s time to try and see how the subreddit works without content from Twitter.”

It represents a bold new initiative for how to share Formula 1 content which does not i𒈔nclude Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter).