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r/massachusetts

A free community for all things Massachusetts. Founded 2008 · 387K members

388.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 139.7K upvotes, which works out to 360 per 1,000 members.

360peak upvotes per 1,000 members
388.5Kmembers
139.7Kbest post
14Kmost comments
417posts 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.

27% 24% 18% 15% 10%
Image 27% Link 24% Text 18% Question 15% Video 10% Gallery 7%

The topics it labels

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

Politics 84 News 75 Photo 58 General Question 34 Discussion 25 Video 20 Recommendation 14 Protest 13 Recreation 11 Govt. info 10

What the ceiling looks like

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

Not a Mass resident, but really liked this comparison

↑ 139.7K 💬 14K image 2024

Boston No Kings. Happy I was apart of that crowd today

↑ 79.8K 💬 2.8K video 2025

Rare to see in a red area

↑ 73.4K 💬 758 image 2025

This is my senator. He will NOT sell you out to the telecom lobby. Keep this guy in office.

↑ 69K 💬 446 image 2017

Nantucket residents took to the streets to boo JD Vance as he arrived to the island. They held up signs that said “Go hump a couch.”

↑ 53K 💬 1.4K video 2025

Aerial view of the protest in boston

↑ 51.1K 💬 683 video 2025

Nazis in Boston Common

↑ 49.1K 💬 10.4K image 2025

This is my senator. She will NOT sell you out to the telecom lobby. Keep her in office.

↑ 45.8K 💬 318 image 2017

My wife became a US citizen today!

↑ 45.2K 💬 1.2K image 2024

Oooh someone's feelings got hurt.

↑ 35.6K 💬 270 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/massachusetts, in numbers

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

What is r/massachusetts?
r/massachusetts describes itself this way: A free community for all things Massachusetts. It was founded in 2008 and has 387K members.
How many members does r/massachusetts have?
r/massachusetts has about 388.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 417 of its posts; the biggest reached 139.7K upvotes, which is 360 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/massachusetts?
"Not a Mass resident, but really liked this comparison" reached 139.7K upvotes and 14K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/massachusetts.
What subreddits are similar to r/massachusetts?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/massachusetts?
Of the posts we hold, 27% are image posts and 24% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/massachusetts?
Across 417 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 21:00 UTC (29.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (18.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 18:00 UTC (18.7K 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/massachusetts?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/massachusetts has 12K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 8 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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