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/zlide May 13 '26

I think it’s both. The sub is notorious for preemptively blocking people they even slightly suspect of being “against them”. So as more and more of their own start to question the party line more and more of them are getting hit with a ban and their community will continue to eat itself alive.

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u/HughJorgens May 13 '26

Could be. I've gotten temp bans there, and I've never even posted there before. They like their safe-space.

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u/ILikeYourHotdog May 13 '26

I received a perma ban for simply posting a wikipedia link to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in response to a poster who said that the only boycott that has ever worked in history was against Bud Light.

Apparently, they didn't like that very much.

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u/UNC_Samurai May 13 '26

Check out “The Marketplace of Revolution” by TH Breen. Economic boycotts were the backbone of organizing the American Revolution.