r/linux
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
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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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.