About r/AMA
In its own words:
Have anything interesting or unique to share about yourself? Let people ask you anything.
Community guide
r/AMA (#589, about 1.9 million subscribers) is oriented around: Have anything interesting or unique to share about yourself? Let people ask you anything. Recent activity samples show ~80 posts/day in recent samples (~97% text, ~3% link). Public rules we collected include: Harassment/Hate/Bigotry not allowed; Posts must be AMAs; AMA commenters must ask questions; AMA posters must answer questions in their threads; Post Quality. Directory metadata files it under “Lifestyles”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities. Submission type is set to “self” in metadata—link/text expectations may differ from open “any” rooms.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Restricted Post, *VERIFIED*.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Aug 10, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 3,646 subscribers (+0.19%). It sits just behind r/RocketLeague (#588) and ahead of r/UKPersonalFinance (#590) in our ranking.
What sets r/AMA apart
r/AMA is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 97% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 42.4 new posts a day per million members, more than 84% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.86% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 92% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/AMA grew from 1,869,199 to 1,885,284 subscribers (+16.1K, +0.86%). That is about 366 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/AMA talks about
Across 506 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “ask”, “work”, “school”, “life” and “living”. Other frequent themes are family, married, high, parents, india and ago. Recurring phrases include “high school”, “school dropout”, “dropout living” and “whole life”. By format, 97% are text posts and 3% are links.
Popular post flairs: Restricted Post (2), *VERIFIED* (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/AMA gets roughly 80 new posts a day. The public archive holds 658,098 posts and 13,727,506 comments in total, about 20.9 comments per post.
Rules of r/AMA
The moderators of r/AMA list 8 rules. In short:
- Harassment/Hate/Bigotry not allowed
- Posts must be AMAs
- AMA commenters must ask questions
- AMA posters must answer questions in their threads
- Post Quality
- NSFW content is prohibited unless prior approval is obtained
- Long and Controversial Opinions
- No fake stories
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/AMA and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/AMA have?
r/AMA has 1,885,284 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #589 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 16,085 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/AMA created?
r/AMA was created on Aug 10, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Sep 2, 2009.
Is r/AMA still active?
Yes. r/AMA gets roughly 80 new posts a day (estimate from a sample of recent posts). Over its lifetime the archive counts 658,098 posts and 13,727,506 comments. In a sample of 506 recent posts we counted 432 different authors.
What kind of posts are on r/AMA?
The community describes itself as: “Have anything interesting or unique to share about yourself? Let people ask you anything.” Recent post titles often mention ask, work, school, life and living. Most posts are text posts (97%).
Is r/AMA SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/AMA as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/AMA?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/AMA accepts text posts only. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Harassment/Hate/Bigotry not allowed”; “Posts must be AMAs”; “AMA commenters must ask questions”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/AMA?
Communities with similar topics include r/notinteresting (1.4M), r/ask (1.3M), r/AskReddit (60M), r/interesting (2.2M) and r/AskCulinary (1.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/AMA.