You know it, I know it (assuming we're both whitewashed pseudo-intellectuals): r/Nepal has been dead for a while. It's a husk of what it used to be, and the blame yet again is on the poor average Nepali. It got too mainstream, to the point that it now very accurately reflects the sad reality of everyday Nepal. For some time, it was a fairly small community of regards who'd upvote lots if you replied nice to a 69 comment. That charm was lost when the sub exploded around 2020, in ways more than one.
I mostly stopped browsing Reddit after I became a bidesi a few years ago, and had an actual irl escape, not just mere virtual. With all the turmoil around, I got back a month or two ago only to find out how my boy was massacred. By governance? Maybe. By the people? More likely. Oh well, let's do some post-mortem and see if we can nail down a cause. I took every post from September 2009 to January 2026 - about 300,000 posts total and ran some numbers because I'm a nerd like that. Here are some basic stats:
Peak: - with - posts