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Self-Reliance: Reliance on one's own powers and resources

Welcome to Self-reliance! This community is a place to discuss experiences, photos, articles, guides, life-hacks and bits of knowledge on how to be self-reliant, we have the aim to increase a bit more our knowledge in different areas. Self-reliance is a broad concept, it is our intention to be a platform of knowledge and educational sharing of skills that may give individuals some sort of independence for their lives.

240k subscribers13 posts / mo in Sep 202612 authors / mosince 2014

r/selfreliance has 240k members (+5.9% over the last 12 months). It gets about 13 posts a month from 12 people. Top topics: Survival Books & Prepping, Beginner Gardening Tips and Winter Gardening.

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Size and growth

How r/selfreliance has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+5.9%in 12 months · +0.8% in 3 months
Oct 2026240k
Growing240k subscribers
Data since Jun 2019Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−38%vs Sep 2025 · −25% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202613
QuieterPeaked at 148 in Sep 2021
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/selfreliance

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Survival Books & Prepping1.9%
  2. Beginner Gardening Tips0.9%
  3. Winter Gardening0.7%
  4. Edible Foraging Guides0.5%
  5. Raised Bed Gardens0.5%

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research