About r/brasil
In its own words:
A casa dos brasileiros no Reddit. Leia as regras e participe de nossa comunidade! The Brazilian community on Reddit. Feel free to post in English or Portuguese! Também se sinta convidado para conhecer nosso Lemmy! https://lemmy.eco.br/
Community guide
r/brasil (#310, about 3.4 million) is the Brazilian Reddit home—Portuguese or English welcome. Rules (PT) ban illegal content, disrespect, prejudice, empathy failures about suffering/death, bad titles, bad link sharing, exposing ordinary people, spam, fake news, off-topic, low quality, duplicates, and metadrama. Link/Text (~210.7 ppd).
Brazil community board
Brasil-relevant posts in PT/EN; off-topic and metadrama are removed.
Titles, sources, dignity
Adequate titles/links; no fake news; don’t expose private people; no prejudice.
Practical pointers
High volume link/text/image/video; Discussão/Notícia/Pergunta flairs.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Feb 15, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 7,646 subscribers (+0.23%). It sits just behind r/yoga (#309) and ahead of r/zelda (#311) in our ranking.
What sets r/brasil apart
For its size it is unusually busy: about 62.6 new posts a day per million members, more than 96% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.81% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 95% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (13:00 UTC) sees about 16.3× as many posts as the quietest (07:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/brasil climbed from 3,338,756 to 3,365,935 subscribers (+27.2K, +0.81%). That is about 618 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/brasil talks about
Looking at the titles of 700 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “que”, “para”, “lula”, “não” and “uma”. Other frequent themes are como, por, bolsonaro, sobre, mais and flávio. Recurring phrases include “flávio bolsonaro”, “voto distrital”, “consulta pública” and “lara resende”. By format, 31% are links, 29% are text posts and 20% are images.
Popular post flairs: Discussão (214), Notícia (195), Pergunta (70), Vídeo (51), Humor (39), Artigo (28).
Activity and best time to post
r/brasil gets about 210 new posts a day. The public archive holds 872,086 posts and 15,759,319 comments in total, about 18.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (322 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (152). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
Rules of r/brasil
The moderators of r/brasil list 13 rules. In short:
- Conteúdo ilegal
- Desrespeito a outro usuario ou à comunidade
- Preconceito ou discriminação
- Falta de empatia ou banalização do sofrimento ou morte
- Post com título inadequado
- Link compartilhado de forma inadequada
- Exposição de pessoas comuns
- Spam
- Notícia falsa ou desinformação
- Conteudo off-topic
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/brasil 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 members does r/brasil have?
r/brasil has 3,365,935 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #310 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 27,179 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/brasil?
r/brasil was created on Feb 15, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
How active is r/brasil?
Very active: r/brasil gets about 210 new posts a day (average of the last week). Over its lifetime the archive counts 872,086 posts and 15,759,319 comments. In a sample of 700 recent posts we counted 511 different authors.
When is r/brasil most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 13:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/brasil about?
The community describes itself as: “A casa dos brasileiros no Reddit. Leia as regras e participe de nossa comunidade! The Brazilian community on Reddit. Feel free to post in English or Portuguese! Também se sinta convidado para conhecer nosso Lemmy! https…” Recent post titles often mention que, para, lula, não and uma. Most posts are links (31%).
Is r/brasil safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/brasil as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/brasil?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/brasil accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 13 posted rules, starting with: “Conteúdo ilegal”; “Desrespeito a outro usuario ou à comunidade”; “Preconceito ou discriminação”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/brasil?
Communities with similar topics include r/mexico (3.2M), r/PremierLeague (5.1M), r/learnprogramming (4.4M), r/Perfectfit (3.2M) and r/malefashionadvice (6.5M).
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/brasil.