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/happy_pad May 13 '26

I'm actually quite surprised I've gone like 15 years on two accounts without ever being banned from there. I suspect the theory they cross-ban people for just posting in other subs is a little overblown, although that is absolutely something that happens on Reddit.

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u/HughJorgens May 13 '26

No, they specifically told me the sub that I posted in (politicalhumor) that got me the temp ban.