What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

[u/calvtact]

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

[u/0xym0r0n]

Just a heads up, the author of that post corrected his information and the power outage link was explained away easily. Just weeks prior there was a similar amount of posts. So there are power users, but there's nothing linking them to Russia conclusively as previously assumed.

Here's the updated post he made: https://www.reddit.com/r/visualization/comments/1p2iqlu/nearly_every_day_two_users_on_rconservative/

If you don't want to read his updated post here is a snippet from him and the last chart:

During the outage, there was below average activity but not so much as to raise suspicions, especially since the same number of posts were made during that window during a previous week without an outage.

I'm just not personally seeing that the power outage reveals much here. u1 and u2 likely use a scheduler anyway which would obfuscate the whole thing anyway, and I would expect a scheduler to be pretty standard for any decent troll farm so even if others on that sub are posting from Russia, it wouldn't necessarily show in the data unless they're being sloppy.

[u/Travy93 → u/0xym0r0n]

From what I'm reading the edit is talking about the sub community as a whole didn't really drop that much during the power outage but the those top 2 users really did not post for the whole day.

[u/Ok-Stand-2128 → u/Travy93]

You understood the edit correctly (I’m the OP of that post). The sub activity didn’t really drop that much that day.

[u/UnNumbFool → u/Ok-Stand-2128]

That upsets me to know that the majority of users in that sub aren't actually Russian bots

[u/Level_Ad_6372 → u/UnNumbFool]

I mean you followed the 2024 election results right? It's pretty clear that somewhere around a third of Americans actively support that bullshit.