Pi-hole® - A black hole for Internet Advertisements. "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules before posting, thanks! Founded 2015 · 244.3K members
243.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached
13.9K upvotes, which works out to
57 per 1,000 members.
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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Text 48%Image 22%Question 18%Link 8%Gallery 3%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.
User Mod 12Solved! 7Announcement 5💩 Shitpost 4Guide 3Feature Request 1:pihole:#1 - No, Pi-hole can't block ads on Youtube. 1YUCK 1Discussion 1:pihole: Quality Post 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/pihole?
r/pihole ("Pi-hole® - A black hole for Internet Advertisements") describes itself this way: "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules before posting, thanks. It was founded in 2015 and has 244.3K members.
How many members does r/pihole have?
r/pihole has about 243.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 399 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.9K upvotes, which is 57 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/pihole?
"Husband is playing mobile games while I watch DNS Queries from his phone to block the ads for him." reached 13.9K upvotes and 359 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/pihole.
What subreddits are similar to r/pihole?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/pihole?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are text posts and 22% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/pihole?
Across 399 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 04:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (805 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (802 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/pihole?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/pihole has 1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 45 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/pihole, 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.