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r/linux

Updated Aug 10

Welcome to /r/Linux! This is a community for sharing news about Linux, interesting developments and press. If you're looking for tech support, /r/Linux4Noobs and /r/linuxquestions are friendly communities that can help you. Please also check out: https://lemmy.ml/c/linux and Kbin.social/m/Linux Please refrain from posting help requests here, cheers.

Members

1,901,238

1.9M

Posts per day

no sample yet

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Tracking since Jul 30 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows.

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r/linux — frequently asked

How many members does r/linux have?

r/linux has 1,901,238 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 10. 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/linux growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/linux yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Jul 30; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/linux?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/linux yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the crawl accumulates more.

Can I promote my product in r/linux?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/linux 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/linux for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/linux 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.