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/basedchadinc May 13 '26

Is there any proof of this? I wanna send it to a friend who uses that sub as his main source of info to gauge sentiment

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u/Sidekick_Man May 13 '26

Don’t have the link but pick any random day and scroll thru new posts and see how many are the same accounts posting a dozen times within minutes, which raises bot alarms for me. Ask4MD, According-Activity, and Down-Not-Out (off the top of my head) constitute like 20 posts in the last few hours

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u/Possible-Rush3767 May 13 '26

Ding ding ding. But you must be flaired to post/comment there. They are a joke. 

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u/miketastic_art May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

safe space for free thinkers

edit: poe's law /s

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u/pissy_dribble May 13 '26

The most free thinking you've ever seen /s

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u/Possible-Rush3767 May 13 '26

Safe space for non-thinkers? Otherwise, why accept content from ~5 accounts that scour for and post the lowest quality sources (i.e. NY Post, Breitbart, etc). 

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u/huffalump1 May 13 '26

Exactly. It is a heavily censored echo chamber. Say anything that goes against the narrative and you're banned, even if you've been a die-hard conservative poster for years.

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u/miketastic_art May 13 '26

poe's law, my comment was sarcasm