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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.

57peak upvotes per 1,000 members
243.9Kmembers
13.9Kbest post
463most comments
399posts 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.

48% 22% 18% 8%
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 12 Solved! 7 Announcement 5 💩 Shitpost 4 Guide 3 Feature Request 1 :pihole:#1 - No, Pi-hole can't block ads on Youtube. 1 YUCK 1 Discussion 1 :pihole: Quality Post 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Husband is playing mobile games while I watch DNS Queries from his phone to block the ads for him.

↑ 13.9K 💬 359 image 2025

I bought a Chinese robot vacuum...

↑ 2.2K 💬 198 image 2025

Introducing Pi-hole v6

↑ 2.2K 💬 388 link 2025

Me after setting up Pi-hole + Unbound today

↑ 2.1K 💬 62 image 2024

[Meme] Thank you Pi-hole

↑ 1.9K 💬 115 image 2020

Thanks meta

↑ 1.9K 💬 87 image 2026

Essential nerds be like......

↑ 1.8K 💬 155 image 2020

Pi-hole v5.0 is here!

↑ 1.8K 💬 463 link 2020

Pi-hole is so boring.

↑ 1.6K 💬 162 text 2020

Thanks pihole

↑ 1.6K 💬 66 image 2019

Communities its size

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

r/pihole, in numbers

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.

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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.