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r/Futurology

Future(s) Studies. A subreddit devoted to the field of Future(s) Studies and evidence-based speculation about the development of humanity, technology, and civilization. -------- You can also find us in the fediverse at - https://futurology.today Founded 2011 · 21.7M members

21.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 149.4K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
21.7Mmembers
149.4Kbest post
9.8Kmost comments
747posts 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.

72% 14% 12%
Link 72% Text 14% Question 12% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

AI 229 Society 76 Robotics 67 Discussion 65 Energy 62 Space 46 Environment 45 Biotech 36 Economics 22 Transport 22

What the ceiling looks like

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

Elon Musk: We know we'll run out of dead dinosaurs to mine for fuel & have to use sustainable energy eventually, so why not go renewable now & avoid …

↑ 149.4K 💬 4.9K link 2018

F.C.C. Announces Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality

↑ 147K 💬 3K link 2017

Bernie Sanders says it's time for a four-day work week: "With exploding technology and increased worker productivity, it's time to move toward a four…

↑ 130.1K 💬 5.5K link 2023

Andrew Yang launches nonprofit, called Humanity Forward, aimed at promoting Universal Basic Income

↑ 104.9K 💬 4.5K link 2020

It's time to implement a 4-day workweek, Andrew Yang says. The pandemic has made it important now more than ever.

↑ 103.3K 💬 4.8K link 2020

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People

↑ 99.6K 💬 3.5K link 2024

Biden will announce on Tuesday a new plan to spend $2 trillion over four years to significantly escalate the use of clean energy in the transportatio…

↑ 92.2K 💬 5.7K link 2020

President Biden will make entire 645k federal vehicle fleet US-made electric

↑ 90K 💬 4.9K link 2021

The ethics of the 4 day work week. It’s not just about the hours - “We should work to live, not live to work,” declared Britain’s shadow chancellor, …

↑ 88.8K 💬 4.5K link 2019

Bill Gates Thinks That The 1% Should Foot The Bill To Combat Climate Change

↑ 86.7K 💬 3.4K link 2020

Communities its size

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

r/Futurology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Futurology?
r/Futurology ("Future(s) Studies") describes itself this way: A subreddit devoted to the field of Future(s) Studies and evidence-based speculation about the development of humanity, technology, and civilization. -------- You can also find us in the fediverse at - https://futurology.today. It was founded in 2011 and has 21.7M members.
How many members does r/Futurology have?
r/Futurology has about 21.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 747 of its posts; the biggest reached 149.4K upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Futurology?
"Elon Musk: We know we'll run out of dead dinosaurs to mine for fuel & have to use sustainable energy eventually, so why not go renewable now" reached 149.4K upvotes and 4.9K comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Futurology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Futurology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/dankmemes, r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside.
What kind of posts do best on r/Futurology?
Of the posts we hold, 72% are link posts and 14% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Futurology?
Across 747 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 09:00 UTC (61.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 10:00 UTC (52.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (39.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/Futurology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Futurology has 78.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 231 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Futurology, 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.