On Reddit, it seems like there are two types of subreddits: community and dropbox. In a community-type subreddit, people actively upvote, comment, and discuss. In a dropbox subreddit, nobody cares what you shared because everyone comes here to share their own content. So there are no upvotes or comments, even if the subreddit has hundreds of thousands of people.
For example: /freebsd is a community,
But /indieGaming is a drop box (unfortunately)
@alex_deplov I'm biased, but (yes) /r/freebsd is a fairly good example of a community.
The number of weekly visitors has risen to twenty-one thousand in recent months <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1neo1s0/weekly_visitors_to_rfreebsd/>, although I pay little attention to stats such as those. (When I look at more detailed insights, I suspect that 21K is wrong.)
The long-term sense of a place and its people can't be captured in a graph.
Alexander Deplov 🇩🇪
Graham Perrin