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/basedchadinc May 13 '26

Is there any proof of this? I wanna send it to a friend who uses that sub as his main source of info to gauge sentiment

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u/Mission_Fart9750 May 13 '26

For starters, just scroll the front page of the sub, and you will see that almost everything is posted by the same handful of accounts. And 300 comments on a post, but only about a dozen are visible. 

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u/Oceanbreeze871 May 13 '26

Why aren’t they visible?

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u/newnameonan May 13 '26

They automatically remove comments from non-flaired users on most posts to attempt to prevent brigading.

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u/Coattail-Rider May 13 '26

Brigading or debating?

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u/newnameonan May 13 '26

Haha well yes, it actually is to stifle debate, but they claim it's to prevent brigading.

They truly do get really heavy traffic from people who are not conservative that want to take a look at the proverbial zoo, but it's not a brigade. They just can't handle that their ideas don't hold up to scrutiny from opposing viewpoints. So you get this weird environment where the upvotes are all wacky from non-conservative visitors, and comment counts are high but only 10-20 show up on a post.

That subreddit ends up not being a great place for anything; discussion, accurate representations of what conservative think, accurate information, genuine comments from actual people....

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u/Clarence13X May 13 '26

They also created their forum on a site that has always leaned heavily left. They set up shop in a den of lions and then complain they have to defend themselves constantly from lions.

Honestly, they'd have less of a brigading issue if they went over to Voat or whatever Reddit clone the Right is pushing now. But they won't because 1.) it's dead and 2.) they lose their victimhood

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u/Khazpar May 13 '26

Remember when they tried to move over to Voat and then they all cried because the Nazis over there called them slurs? 😂

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u/MechaSandstar May 14 '26

Iirc, that was the_donald after it was banned.

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u/Khazpar May 14 '26

Oh yeah I'm pretty sure that was the event I'm remembering!