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r/Libertarian: For a Free Society. Welcome to /r/Libertarian, a subreddit to discuss libertarianism. We are not a generic politics sub. We are a libertarian sub, about libertarianism. We do not owe you a platform to push anti-libertarian ideologies such as socialism/communism. This sub is explicitly against Communism/Socialism as it is antithetical to libertarianism Founded 2008 · 514.2K members

514.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 68.2K upvotes, which works out to 133 per 1,000 members.

133peak upvotes per 1,000 members
514.2Kmembers
68.2Kbest post
6.5Kmost comments
201posts 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.

43% 32% 14%
Image 43% Link 32% Text 14% Video 6% Question 5%

The topics it labels

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

End Democracy 72 Article 5 Image/Meme 3 Tweet 2 Meme 2 Current Events 1 What could possibly go wrong? 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Phoenix cops kill white guy who legally answered door with a firearm at his side. Put his free hand up and knelt down to put the gun on the ground an…

↑ 68.2K 💬 6K link 2020

58 days until the Tea Party starts caring about deficits again. 58 days until evangelicals start pretending to care about values/morals again. 58 day…

↑ 42.3K 💬 2.4K text 2020

I was falsely arrested in 2013 by a dangerous and corrupt detective. I survived it, but I lost 60,000 dollars in legal fees, spent 6 days in jail, an…

↑ 37.8K 💬 775 link 2020

Some say Breanna Taylor was unjustly killed by police, some say her boyfriend is to blame. When will someone state the obvious... she is another need…

↑ 30.4K 💬 2.4K question 2020

BREAKING: South Carolina Supreme Court BANS No-Knock Warrants

↑ 28.2K 💬 551 link 2020

Very True

↑ 24.9K 💬 1.1K image 2019

Rand Paul says no-knock warrants 'should be forbidden' in wake of Breonna Taylor shooting

↑ 24.2K 💬 1.1K link 2020

Sen. Rand Paul on the new senate spending bill: "If you were against President Obama's deficits, and now you're for the Republican deficits, isn't th…

↑ 24.1K 💬 2.6K link 2018

NYPD ransacks man’s home and confiscates $4800 on charges that are eventually dropped a year later. When he tries to retrieve his money, he is told i…

↑ 23.8K 💬 1.6K link 2017

US Foreign Policy, in a nutshell

↑ 22.8K 💬 1.1K image 2017

Communities its size

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

r/Libertarian, in numbers

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

What is r/Libertarian?
r/Libertarian ("r/Libertarian: For a Free Society") describes itself this way: Welcome to /r/Libertarian, a subreddit to discuss libertarianism. We are not a generic politics sub. We are a libertarian sub, about libertarianism. We do not owe you a platform to push anti-libertarian ideologies such as socialism/communism. This sub is explicitly against Communism/Socialism as it is antithetical to libertarianism. It was founded in 2008 and has 514.2K members.
How many members does r/Libertarian have?
r/Libertarian has about 514.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 201 of its posts; the biggest reached 68.2K upvotes, which is 133 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Libertarian?
"Phoenix cops kill white guy who legally answered door with a firearm at his side. Put his free hand up and knelt down to put the gun on the " reached 68.2K upvotes and 6K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Libertarian.
What subreddits are similar to r/Libertarian?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/Libertarian?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are image posts and 32% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Libertarian?
Across 201 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 17:00 UTC (29.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (14.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (13.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/Libertarian?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Libertarian has 19.8K 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/Libertarian, 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.