r/selfhosted
Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services
Founded July 2014 · Public — anyone can post
A place to share, discuss, discover, assist with, gain assistance for, and critique self-hosted alternatives to our favorite web apps, web services, and online tools.
Members
854,801
855K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
26.8
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+2.3%
+19K members · ≈33d
Published rules
6
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 7 · 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
What r/selfhosted's rules say about promotion
1 of 6 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Spam / Self-Promotion / Affiliate Links
rule 2 of 6
Do not spam or promote your own projects too much. We expect you to follow this [Reddit self-promotion guideline](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion). Promoted apps must be production ready and have docs. No direct ads for web hosting or VPS. Only mention your service in comments if it’s relevant and adds value.
The other 5
- Low-Effort / Off-Topic
- Respect / Hate-speech / Bullying / Harassment
- Blog Link Posts
- Dashboards / Companion Apps / Tools - Wednesday Exceptions
- New Projects - “New Project Friday” Exceptions
Read from r/selfhosted’s published rules on Mar 12. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/selfhosted — frequently asked
How many members does r/selfhosted have?
r/selfhosted has 854,801 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 12. 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/selfhosted growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/selfhosted changed by +2.3% — 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/selfhosted?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/selfhosted 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/selfhosted created?
r/selfhosted was founded in July 2014 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/selfhosted?
r/selfhosted publishes 6 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Spam / Self-Promotion / Affiliate Links”, says: Do not spam or promote your own projects too much. We expect you to follow this [Reddit self-promotion guideline](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion). Promoted apps must be production ready and have… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/selfhosted for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/selfhosted 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/selfhosted's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/selfhosted'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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