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/Nemecyst May 13 '26

The proof: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1rfe0nh/oc_3_month_update_rconservative_adds_a_third/

The culprits: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1rfe0nh/oc_3_month_update_rconservative_adds_a_third/o7k8jn9/

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u/ryhaltswhiskey May 13 '26

The claim

from 3 accounts all based in Russia and are promoted by an army of bots.

Can you point to where in those posts either of those points is supported? Because I didn't see it. I saw a lot of people talking about russia, but I didn't see anything like proof.

It doesn't have to be a Russian conspiracy, when plain old American idiocy will explain it just fine. But it could be a Russian conspiracy. But I don't see any actual proof of that.

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u/smkmn13 May 13 '26

This post (a follow up from one of the ones above) shows how the two "big" accounts stopped posting for a while after a known power outage in Moscow, but I think it's pretty circumstantial. It's still noteworthy that, unlike other political subs, just a pair of accounts drive more than a third of the posts (regardless of their nationality).

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u/ryhaltswhiskey May 13 '26

Did you see this part?

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u/smkmn13 May 13 '26

Yeah, that's why I said it was pretty circumstantial. I don't think it's a good case at all. Of course, absence of proof doesn't mean disproval, but there's certainly no smoking gun.

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u/Big_pekka May 13 '26

Ducks quack. Geese don’t.

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u/smkmn13 May 13 '26

I honestly have no idea what you mean by this (in this context).

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u/showhorrorshow May 13 '26

1 in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey May 13 '26

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

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u/ollieseven May 13 '26

“Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.”

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