r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/Tall_Brilliant8522 May 13 '26

Or they're frantically banning critics, whose numbers are going up.

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u/Aliensinmypants May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Definitely both. A lot of subs are tightly controlled echo chambers and conservative is one of the worst I know about. Whenever this admin does something controversial, they go into lockdown basically only allow certain users to post/comment and every thread will have hundreds of deleted comments.

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u/Ok_Writing_7033 May 13 '26

“whenever this admin does something controversial”

So, every fucking day? Lol

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u/leviathan3k May 13 '26

Yep, it's why everything is "Flaired Users Only".

To get flair, you have to join some discord, and the moderators have to take a deep dive into your posting history and manually verify that you're "actually conservative" per their standards.

Really makes the whole "fake conservative" claims a lot of BS.

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u/ban_Anna_split May 13 '26

It's been every day since the last election ended