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r/Degrowth

Degrowth is an idea that critiques the pursuit of infinite growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. Degrowth means transforming societies to ensure environmental justice and a good life for all within planetary boundaries. Anti Consumerism, pro environment [Learn more here](https://degrowth.info) Founded 2012 · 33.6K members

34.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.2K upvotes, which works out to 500 per 1,000 members.

500peak upvotes per 1,000 members
34.4Kmembers
17.2Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
191posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Link 57% Image 20% Video 14% Text 4% Question 3% Gallery 2%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

"Capitalism is a system where we can't afford to do the right thing" do you agree with this?

↑ 17.2K 💬 259 image 2025

400 years of capitalism

↑ 8.6K 💬 305 image 2025

The actual reason younger generations are anticapitalist

↑ 7.8K 💬 57 image 2024

Capitalism is the best system because...

↑ 5.9K 💬 137 image 2024

Individual responsibility

↑ 5.4K 💬 112 video 2025

Why do US-Americans and Canadians love the suburbs so much

↑ 5.4K 💬 673 image 2025

Large scale meat farming is infinitely evil. Rapidly growing across the Global South due to Globalization

↑ 5.3K 💬 1.3K video 2026

Isn't panicking and depression just a suitable reaction for the world we're in?

↑ 4K 💬 83 image 2025

The Great American Protest - Edited

↑ 3.8K 💬 66 link 2025

Humans are NOT "the virus"

↑ 3.7K 💬 196 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Degrowth, in numbers

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What is r/Degrowth?
r/Degrowth describes itself this way: Degrowth is an idea that critiques the pursuit of infinite growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. Degrowth means transforming societies to ensure environmental justice and a good life for all within planetary boundaries. Anti Consumerism, pro environment [Learn more here](https://degrowth.info). It was founded in 2012 and has 33.6K members.
How many members does r/Degrowth have?
r/Degrowth has about 34.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 191 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.2K upvotes, which is 500 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Degrowth?
""Capitalism is a system where we can't afford to do the right thing" do you agree with this?" reached 17.2K upvotes and 259 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Degrowth.
What subreddits are similar to r/Degrowth?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Degrowth?
Of the posts we hold, 57% are link posts and 20% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Degrowth?
Across 191 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 07:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Degrowth?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Degrowth has 1.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Degrowth, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.