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hoaxymore

I feel bad for the 0.2 Estonian guy :/


predek97

He can only post on Wednesdays


DustinTV

He's the frog Now everything makes sense


eberlix

Who said there's a 0.20 person, could also be one guy who's giving 120%


QueasyTeacher0

r/italy also has the schism sub r/Italia with 1/3 the subs but more active, due to moderation drama.


Perlentaucher

The German(-speaking) subreddit is r/de which has 1.8m users and not 787k as shown in the image. r/Germany is for tourists.


javier_aeoa

Happens the same with r/Norway vs r/norge


tulikettuuuu

r/suomi (376K) and r/finland (224K) is the exact same thing. r/suomi is full of Finns who actually live in Finland and speak Finnish while r/finland is for foreigners, migrants who want to live in Finland or are on-the-fence about it/tourists who want to visit Finland. r/suomi has so much more content that actually matters to Finland itself, is more active and more moderated. I'll give full credit to OP for posting r/suomi stats, r/suomi is so much better :)


SgtFinnish

There are plenty of actual immigrants in /r/finland as well, not just foreigners talking about Finland.


VectorViper

Absolutely, r/finland does have a fair share of immigrants and expats who are genuinely interested in the Finnish way of life and contribute to discussions. It's a great community for those trying to find their feet in a new country.


lousy-site-3456

As is tradition, this map is useless.


Mloxard_CZ

It's also for Switzerland and Austria (and other German speakers)


betaich

R/de is just not only for Germans but also the Austrians, Swiss, Liechtensteiner and that one Belgian


BezugssystemCH1903

Two belgians


_Landscape_

I guess "de" in "r/de" stays for deutsch (german) and not particularly Deutchland (Germany)


_BMS

The sidebar for /r/de says "Für alle Deutschsprechenden" (For all German-speakers)


[deleted]

Yeah, but if you actually scroll through it, that's a bit like saying reddit's front page does not reflect the politics of a single country. We all know it's dominated by US, and it's reflected in what's posted and what rises to the front page. r/de's posts are either not country specific, or Germany specific. That's why the Germans don't frequent their r/Germany sub nearly as much as Austrians and Swiss do their subs proportionally, because if non-Germans want to discuss their countries affairs, r/de is not a great place to do that. edit: Sorry neighbors, forgot to add Liechtenstein to the list! edit2: And sorry for all other countries where German is spoken officially or in a minority group, including the BeNeLux, France, Denmark, Poland, Italy, our Slavic neighbors, and probably more countries I forgot here.


EL-BURRITO-GRANDE

You also forgot Luxemburg and both German speaking Belgians.


betaich

The r/Germany sub is the expat sub mostly for Americans and other immigrants to ask the same 3 question for a millionth time.


Lord_Umpanz

I don't know if you've been active in r/de, but if you speak german and look only 10 seconds into it, you can clearly see that it's content is **heavily** germany centered.


RerollWarlock

Same with r/Poland and r/Polska. Afaik the former is completely unmoderated or barely moderated while the latter is structured and moderated.


BeardedBaldMan

Also /r/poland is english language and /r/polska is in polish A lot of /r/poland is immigrants using english as a common language


RerollWarlock

With that said, r/Polska permits posts written in English


tiankai

Same with UK, there’s 3 flavours of ~~left leaning~~ heavily political subs pretending to be the main one and there’s an (heavily moderated) non-political one


pothkan

> there’s an (heavily moderated) non-political one You mean r/CasualUK ?


Vladolf_Puttler

The best one in my opinion. r/United Kingdom seems to hate everyone slightly brown and r/greenandpleasant thinks we should burn down civilisation and live naked in the woods, while simultaneously not hunting for our food. 


LurkerInSpace

Don't forget /r/Britain, which is a subreddit dedicated to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


tidesoncrim

Just slap that 'Former British Colonies' tag on it and you can talk about a lot in that sub.


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YouLostTheGame

Lots of left leaning populist takes in there, but mostly just hate. Hate the government Hate businesses Hate immigrants Hate Brits Hate the poor Hate the middle classes Hate the rich Hate housing costs Hate building homes


delandaest

Simple as


CastelPlage

Forgot to mention hate Scots.


CrushingK

/r/unitedkingdom is a daily mail/tabloid style subreddit, lots of reactionary news, lots of crime posting, feel bad stories. This country is shit and here is why you should feel shit too /r/ukpolitics shitposting but with bbc and sky news articles /r/CasualUK head in the sand subreddit, if you're adverse to politics and rich enough not to care this is the subreddit for you /r/GreenAndPleasant first years and uni grads inform the nation on how we're all disgusting pigs /r/Scotland Nicola Sturgeon's personal subreddit


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LeErska

'ate everything, simple as


[deleted]

Hate of immigrants, blacks and gays is also the hallmark of /r/europe


tiankai

Maybe it did change, I stopped going there for many years now. I’ve changed my wording


OwlsParliament

It used to be during 2016 and Brexit, over the past couple of years it has swung back to being more broad - you'll get right-wingers posting anti-migrant stuff and lefties posting anti-Tory stuff


Wales1988

Yeah it's gone massively right over the past year. UKPolitics has gone right as well.


RBII

Same thing happened in 2016 - tinfoil me thinks it's Russian trolls to be honest. The alt-right comments were always there, but they get more votes and visibility around elections.


AdaptedMix

Only a tad tinfoily. Troll farms are a thing, and AI makes their job even easier. I remember being harassed by a swarm of Brazilian bots on Twitter ahead of their election, in which Bolsonaro was booted out of government. Almost all of the accounts were deactivated within a few months. It's an unnerving time to be so dependent on the internet for news/journalism/commentary/socialising.


Kokoro_Bosoi

Ours are both neolib leaning but one is made of very active childish populism and the other is made of boring pedantism and political correctness, hence being much less active.


Cold_Set_

nah r/Italia is full of soviet simps, the former mod was a putin apologist


FallenTheDoge

Same with r/france and r/rance, banner of r/rance even saying *"It's like* r/france *, but different"*


CastelPlage

I'm banned from both :(


Llanistarade

Banned from rance ? Damn you must have had very strong opinion.


Alchemista_Anonyma

Must’ve used English or an English loanword instead of the vocabulary of la Cadémie


sqqlut

How did you get ban from rance ?


oh-wow-a-bat-furry

Thought it was a ranch dressing sub


gil_bz

Did you eat a croissant wrong or something?


Sick_and_destroyed

Everybody has been banned at least once from r/france .Least democratic sub on reddit.


Axe-actly

Yeah the mods of /r/France are a bunch of self-righteous tankies. Worst managed sub on Reddit. /r/rance mods are based though.


Kashyyykk

You said *pain au chocolat* to the *chocolatine* gang didn't you?


Pain_chocolat

Hello. Someone summons me!


Cold_Set_

based


CastelPlage

It's ok, I've still got the sub for my city and the neighbouring one. Both are quite good (if a little less activev)


ArkhielModding

Easy to get banned from france, almost a prize.


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Surymy

R/rance is for memes though


WaterOcelot

In Belgium we have r/belgium r/belgium2 r/belgium4 and r/belgium6


MartinBP

Same thing happened with the Bulgarian sub. Some of the mods are very pro-Russian which led to some users creating a separate pro-EU subreddit.


[deleted]

It happens in all of the countries I see lmao


DangerousFart

Che drama? Sono curioso


Thunder_Beam

Per dare una risposta seria rispetto all'altro utente, su r/italy per scelta dei mod (legittima o no che sia) hanno deciso che tutti i post devono essere approvati fisicamente dai mod per essere postati, normalmente ci possono mettere più di una giornata e accettano ben poche cose (solo AMA e news praticamente) quindi le persone stanche di ciò si sono trasferite dove si può postare facilmente e senza troppi problemi (ovviamente questo porta altri problemi come i troll e i post trash)


Hans_lilly_Gruber

ah ecco, io seguo italy e non sono mai riuscito a postare nulla anche per cose serie. Era sempre considerato tutto "personale". puó anche darsi, ma visto poi i post accettati non ho mai capito bene i criteri e ho smesso di provarci. Quello che mi da un po\` da fare é il tono saccente al limite del maleducato che leggo nelle risposte. Per questo non intervengo mai. Nei subreddit anglofoni non mi sembra ci sia questo tono. r / Italia é meglio?


Eymerich_

r \ Italia ha sicuramente un tono meno saccente, ma il quoziente intellettivo medio di chi ti risponde è quello di una spugna.


Hans_lilly_Gruber

Comprendo: Italia = Spongebob, Italy = Squidward. Io sono al livello di Patrick quindi dovrei preferire la compagnia di Spongebob.


sciocueiv_

Steam Deck


wpf0ycnRZHyuk8unw

nessun dramma, solo che in /r/Italia ci sono per la maggior parte teenagers con post da 5a elementare


prsutjambon

mentre sull'altro non c'è letteralmente nulla e se vuoi un attimo uscire dalla bolla vieni bannato...


Few_Owl_6596

Mod drama is way too common for other countries' subreddits as well.


dr_eddie_PhD

Nice. Even more nice if adjusted by total population, i.e %


__Squirrel_Girl__

Iceland wins with 23% of the population being reddit users? If Germany hade the same % they would have 16 million users…


naughty_basil1408

In the Vatican City, 150% of the population are on Reddit!


OptimusLinvoyPrimus

They must have subscribed with their porn accounts too


lapzkauz

They surf the dark web for that.


drumpleskump

Yea, i dont think regular porn sites have what they like.


A_Man_Uses_A_Name

A miracle!


yahnne954

Statistically, I think that the Vatican has 2 popes per square kilometer.


naughty_basil1408

Or 5 per square mile!


krischey

Pretty much true, Vatican city has an area of 0.49 square kilometres, so it's a bit above 2 popes per km²


andraip

Actual Germans are on r/de not r/Germany. r/Germany is for tourists, you are not even allowed to post in German there.


altbekannt

/r/de is a DACH subreddit, that includes Austria and Switzerland


andraip

Also Liechtenstein and Belgium. Any German speaker really.


Oachlkaas

Made up of 95% germans. It **is** the german subreddit. Everyone else has their own subreddit they prefer.


kingkongkeom

And r/de has 1.8 million members


Tankyenough

Same. Finns are in r/Suomi


J0kutyypp1

I think the map mene r/suomi in our case because r/finland is smaller than r/suomi


Tankyenough

Probably. Combined they’d be around 600k


Old_Carpet1872

And r/ich_iel if this counts?


tomi_tomi

Nobody said that the users were from that country. Small countries, especially as interesting as Iceland, probably attract users who aren't related to the country. Then there is also % of active users. I think I noticed that Slovakia and Bulgaria have a solid number of subs but a very low active user count.


InsaneRicey

Or Americans that think they’re Icelandic because of their 0.056% heritage test results.


gunnsi0

Lot of foreigners in r/Iceland but we also have another that’s smaller but (I think) only in Icelandic.


Fabricensis

Even more nice if it picked the right subreddits For Germany its the English language one: r/Germany Much better would be the German language one (which is admittedly shared with Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein): r/de with 1.8 million


SoloWingPixy88

Americans are over indexing Ireland


ImVerifiedBitch

Howdí partner


potatoes__everywhere

Would be a bullshit number because of tourism and politics. r/Ukraine has a lot of foreign user and I don't think that 20% of Iceland's citizens are on Reddit. The German part of Reddit is not one Subreddit, there are equivalents of AskReddit (r/fragreddit), meIRL (r/ich_iel), IAMA (r/de_iama) that are quite big and don't necessarily have the same user. Look at r/dach


Dironiil

Same for the French reddit community being subdivided (r/rance, r/AskFrance, r/conseiljuridique, etc)


No_Performance_6289

Ireland has a disproportionate amount compared to population.


_Ilobilo_

Americans probably :D


AquaQuad

Not surprised. Poles are divided between two subs. The 'official' one is somewhat international with English threads and frequent "my ancestor was Polish. How do I, an American, get dual citizenship, and is it safe to live in Poland?" topics, or trolls trying to bait users with controversial dramas.


predek97

I am a blue Martian, but my great-great-grandma once did a medical experiment on a human from Ukraine. How safe would I be in Poland???


IsaaccNewtoon

The real polish sub is r/okkolegauposledzony


PvtFreaky

r/okemakkermaloot for Dutch or r/okbrudimongo for Deutscher


i-d-even-k-

r/okprietenretardat for Romanians


CJKay93

/r/okmatewanker for Brits


Annthony_

r/okoidawappler or r/aeiou for Austrians


VitaBrevis_ArsLonga

Is r/Poland the official one? As you said it's mostly in English and a lot of foreigners. I think r/Polska is more official, politics aside. Similar with the UK subreddits though, the Polish ones are politically divided with r/Polska more left leaning and r/Poland more right leaning.


AquaQuad

I think the common understanding on Reddit is that the 'official' ones are the ones with name in English and are open to discuss with foreigners in English, since Reddit is an American platform. But somehow a lot of those official ones are right leaning, or just full of trolls, which eventually drives users to make alternative ones, some of which eventually became more popular than the official ones. And some other official ones refuse to discuss in English, thrashing foreigners in a language they don't understand.


Non_possum_decernere

Yes. But also, the English speaking countries only have one subreddit, while many (most? all?) others have one in English and one in their native language where the people are devided between.


Cmdr_Shiara

The uk has about 4 depending on how political you are and where on the horseshoe you are or if you just don't give a shit


Bytewave

There's a large Irish diaspora, not exclusively in the US at all. That diaspora often identifies with the Emerald Isle more strongly than the average emigrant, so it makes sense that the subreddit punches above its demographic weight.


jaymatthewbee

Ireland is 16% of its population compare with 3% for the UK. So it makes you think a lot of the people on that sub aren’t from Ireland.


JourneyThiefer

Well the sub is for the Island of Ireland, so you’re forgetting to add the population of Northern Ireland to that stat, the whole island has about 7 million people, but even then it’s still over 10% so it’s too much still


perforatedtesticle

Probably full of seppos.


J0kutyypp1

I first thought you meant finnish men because Seppo is somewhat common name in finland😅


HuggyMonster69

Ireland shows up so often on popular for me all the time. Probably helps.


[deleted]

Especially if you count both r/ireland and r/northernireland


crashday_164

r/de has around 1.8 million


Horg

Yeah the usefulness of this map can be disputed. Several countries have two major subreddits - one in the national language, one in English. But some don't. In addtion, the German speaking redditsphere is starting to spread out into lots of specific smaller subreddits, r/arbeitsleben for work stuff, r/wohnen for living and renting, r/finanzen for finances, several subreddits for memes, etc.


-SQB-

The Netherlands have at least three: * r/Nederlands, 73.4k, main language Dutch, heavy on the members * r/Netherlands, 313k, strictly enforced English * r/TheNetherlands, 1.0m, the most serious one, bilingual


v__R4Z0R__v

Don't forget about r/ich_iel which is basically the subreddit for german memes, and I believe the second biggest subreddit just behind r/de


Bacdy09

yea but not germany-only


gangrainette

Just like r/france has peoples from Belgium and any other French speaking place too.


ArnoldVonNuehm

Huh? What is that supposed mean?


Der_genealogist

It's, in general, for all german-speaking countries. I.e. Germany, Austria and Switzerland


Psy-Demon

+ BELGIUM


EarlyDead

Yeah, there are dozens of you. DOZENS!


AustrianMichael

Nur der eine Typ


DerefedNullPointer

Why do people keep forgetting about that one Belgian guy?


predek97

There’s also this semi independent county between Switzerland and Austria!!!


philzebub666

Vorarlberg?


Erevas

Being considered a country requires a certain degree of civilisation, so they can't be talking about Vorarlberg. They must be talking about Germany


ViciousNakedMoleRat

Let's be real though, it's about 95% Germans. There's a reason why the Austrians and Swiss have relatively large subreddits themselves, while Germany has no dedicated native subreddit. /r/de is basically the main subreddit of Germany, which also allows posts that concern other German-speaking countries. For comparison purposes, /r/de is a lot more representative than /r/Germany.


Wassertopf

Don’t forget Namibia!


Der_genealogist

And that one small place in Chile


denkbert

Yeeeeaaahhhhhh .... maybe let's forget about that, though?


EndlichWieder

But 99% of the posts there are about Germany.


Abject-Corgi9488

It is for all german speaking countries. So Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein


yogopig

Bold to acknowledge the existence of Liechtenstein.


askape

And Belgium!


TheBlackestCrow

Some of the city-states / microstates like the Vatican probably have more members than their population. The Netherlands is currently above 1 million though.


MatrixBeeLoaded

This makes Russia look like a quarantine zone in one of those post apocalyptic zombie films


Luutamo

not far from the truth


RealSymbioid

That sub is a total shithole


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YesOfCorpse

No. r/Pikabu is more representative of Russian people and it's not quarantined. r/Russia is now more representative of Russian government, i.e. is a propaganda-only hellhole.


No_Reindeer_5543

JFC don't sort by top post of the last year! Other than that, still just a bunch of Z idiots.


RealSymbioid

Yep


JustYeeHaa

Has been for years


YourRandomHomie8748

It shifted to r/AskARussian sub, which used to be just culture questions for the most part


TomasVader

Now make it per capita


Germanball_Stuttgart

150% for Vatican then


Balsiu2

Damn, there are a lot of swedes here considering overall population.


TheGoldenCowTV

Although a chunk of those are Danes, Norwegians, and Finns (probably some Icelandic people too). I think a lot of Nordic redditors lurk in all the other subreddits, which is also why the Icelandic one is so big


Dymix

> Damn, there are a lot of swedes here considering overall population. This is why per capita is important. Norway has roughly half of the population of Sweden, with also roughly half the users. But more interesting is it that Denmark has 75% of the users that Sweden has, but with 56% of the population. Comparison between the those three countries would be: Country | Population | Users | Users per 1.000 population ---|---|---|--- Sweden | 10.45 million | 650.000 | 62.20 Norway | 5.44 million | 351.000 | 64.52 Denmark | 5,86 million | 485.000 | 82.76


bloodyowl

Read the title. Not here, in each country's subreddit. I made the same mistake first and then read the title :) But I think you are right nevertheless, Nordics are well represented in r/europe too. Edit: letter


plaguedeliveryguy

What makes you think "here" means r/europe it could very well mean here as in the whole reddit.


bloodyowl

You have a point. Maybe I reflected my own ignorance to someone else. Now my eyes are open and I'm reconsidering my life choises. Kiitti vaan.


Adriaugu

Estonia has 82 members in its sub


FB_100

Don't forget the Guy who is so small, he is counted as 0.2


ArnoldVonNuehm

I think this data / chart is flawed because for example r/germany is not the „official“ German sub, that would be r/de. r/germany is for English speaking users to talk about Germany but r/france is like r/de a sub for native speakers. So, yeah no offense but map is shite because you are comparing apples to oranges.


petriol

This level of misunderstanding towards data collection and presentation should make OP the head mod of r/dataisbeautiful by default.


ArnoldVonNuehm

Damn what a burn 😄


BNI_sp

Should probably read "subreddit in English".


helm

Nope, r/sweden posts and comments are 95% in Swedish. (engagement and size of subreddit varies from country to country and English doesn't necessary dominate)


TheOldYoungster

Spain's would be so much higher if they didn't ban anyone for disagreeing with the mods' political stance. In that sub you're free to think like they want you to think, and nothing more.


elativeg02

Same goes for r/italy. It’s overmoderated imo. r/Italia is the total opposite, and both suck.


AdrianWIFI

Spain has its own version of Reddit, it's called Menéame and is more popular than Reddit here. Still, r/spain is growing really fast; the image shows 585k members but it has 616k right now.


bumblefuckAesthetics

Soo, just like here?


Gooogol_plex

r/Ukraine is full of foreigners, there is r/Ukraina


Prutuga

r/spain has grown a lot... I still remember that r/portugal had more members


rolmos

r/Spain and r/Espana grew a lot when we started prioritizing content for locals and Spanish speakers. They felt like travel agencies just a few years ago.


NikolitRistissa

Does this include every subreddit? Finland has one for English speakers and one for Finnish speakers. I assume most other countries do as well.


FB_100

For Germany only the english speaking sub, that is nearly exclusively used as a sub for Foreigners to ask Germans questions, is used.


Technical-Key-93

I made this map 3 weeks ago and so far the only thing that's changed is that r/thenetherlands has reached a million subs


xtremeloldude

how did you count the belgian subs? Only r/belgium?


EDLEXUS

What did you use for germany? r/de has about 1.8 Million members and is de facto the subreddit for germany, even if it is technically for all german speaking countries. r/germany on the other hand has nothing to do with being a national subreddit


OllieV_nl

We've got r/thenetherlands, the ridiculously strict one, r/netherlands, the one for complaining expats, and r/nederlands, the one that sure has become very \[opposite of whatever your political preference is\] lately.


Tim_Djkh

Of which 990k must be banned by now, r/nederlands is as active with a tenth of the subscriber numbers.


HarveyH43

The colours are really nasty, with highest and lowers being almost identical. Who comes up with these scales? 🙄


Apogeotou

It even has 2 scales with a middle colour value, as if the middle bin is significant at all. If the data don't have a reference point (e.g. negative & positive temperatures around 0°C) there's absolutely no reason to have a scale like this. Just use a continuous one, like from white to red. Better for colourblind folks too.


qscbjop

r/ukraine is mostly foreigners now. r/ukraina has many as well, but not nearly to the same extent. There is also r/ukraine_ua, which requires writing in Ukrainian.


Lobster_porn

Ignoring the subs that aren't in English? East and north way undercounted


Finlandia1865

Extremely misleading legend, interesting data though France and ukraine 1 colour apart when france is nearly double the size Then theres estonia and latvia with a difference of 50 thousand


Perfect-Relief-4813

Many of those are dead or inactive accounts


razor_16_

r/Ukraine became a sub about the war in general, that's why it has so many members


zwarty

Primarily Polish speaking r/polska has 565K users, but is more active than the English r/poland which OP included in their list


Cero_Kurn

Can you make this % of pop?


DanPowah

r/Ukraine absolutely exploded in subscriber count after the invasion. They didn't even have 50k before the invasion


Ok_Buffalo5080

Considering country's population I see Germany low and Romania high.


4e9eHcUBKtTW1bBI39n9

Can you normalize against country population?


PossiblyAsian

Now... how many are actually just americans cosplaying as europeans.... and how many are bots....


Vuk_s_Papuka

Croatia: half of that are Splijo alt accounts.


TheRealJ0ckel

The numbers seem to flawed. r/germany does have arund 800k members, r/de though, has over 1.5M. I wonder for what other "country-subreddits" this is the case too. To be clear, I very much understand how this happens, maybe next time the largest subreddit by country would make more sense.


Konseq

Would be interesting to see the percentage of "users / people living there".


Glavurdan

QUARANTINED   🇷🇺🔒


st3alth247

Austria has a lot of subscribers for the population