r/bald
Lose your hair, not your head.
Founded April 2011 · Public — anyone can post
Welcome to r/bald! Our philosophy is simple: embrace bald and strive to make the world a more bald-friendly place. We’re often sold the idea that bald is bad. That’s bullshit. As we grow and mature everyone experiences the aging process a little differently, for most of us here, that includes varying degrees of hair-loss. It is natural. And it is nothing to be ashamed of - here we’ll support each other and learn to take pride in our baldness.
Members
595,752
596K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
61.8
from the last 100 posts, spanning 38.4h
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+3.3%
+19K members · ≈28d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 3
sampled Oct 3
Distinct posters
98%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 22 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
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r/bald — frequently asked
How many members does r/bald have?
r/bald has 595,752 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 3. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/bald growing?
Over the last ≈28 days r/bald changed by +3.3% — a gain of 19K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/bald?
Around 61.8 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 38.4h. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/bald created?
r/bald was founded in April 2011 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/bald?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 98% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 3. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/bald?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/bald yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/bald for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/bald into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/bald's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/bald's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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