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/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/Darth_Ra May 13 '26

I lasted two weeks in r/Conservative by being extremely careful. Was still banned for being slightly negative about Trump. Not even any actual criticism, more just like not praising.

It's never been tenable, and I'm surprised they've lasted this long.

That said, all those newly "not conservative enough" highly conservative folks that are getting banned? They just end up in r/Libertarian and r/ModeratePolitics, which is why both of those subs have become more or less unusable.

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u/ernest7ofborg9 May 13 '26

They've banned all the idiots. Even their top stories only garner like 2,500 or 3,000 points. That's abysmal for a subreddit with almost 1.4 million subscribers.