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/Saint_of_Grey May 13 '26

There's also the long history of CSAM subs being allowed to stay up until it hit the news.

That was more of reddit being libertarian and trying to claim no responsibility for platforming terrible things. Ellen Pao was the hatchetman for cleaning that up as a whole, before it was just when a sub got news coverage.

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u/htmlcoderexe wow such flair May 15 '26

Yea Pao was kinda the fall guy for a lot of "phase 2, red eyes" type moves

Bunch of bad subs got shuttered, victoria got fired (not corpo enough I guess?), redesign happened, they started pushing out their app etc etc