r/Protein
Protein - A Community for Protein Powders, Smoothies & Related Topics
Founded February 2012 · Public — anyone can post
A place to discuss anything related to protein, protein powders (Whey, Casein, Soy & Pea protein etc), smoothies, protein bars, and more. Feel free to share recommendations, recipes, and questions about macros.
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Tracking since Sep 25 · 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
Tracking since Sep 25 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/Protein — frequently asked
How many members does r/Protein have?
r/Protein has 26,887 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 25. 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/Protein growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Protein yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 25; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/Protein?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Protein yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/Protein created?
r/Protein was founded in February 2012 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.
Can I promote my product in r/Protein?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Protein 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/Protein for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Protein 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/Protein's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Protein'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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