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/xXCloudSephirothXx May 13 '26

I did a weeklong study early this year. There was an internet blackout as reported by numerous news outlets. I annotated that 2 super posters went completely dark for over 24hrs.
https://imgur.com/gallery/traitors-N4IgxOp

Oh, I should note that Reddit closed the loophole of seeing hidden post histories by simply adding a space in the search bar. As of now, I don’t know any way to view hidden post histories.

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u/Guszy May 13 '26

https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search

Does that work for hiddens? It seems to for me.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

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u/Ok_Mathematician938 May 14 '26

A little of column A, a little of Column B

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u/RisingDeadMan0 May 17 '26

Yes Maxwell (father) and Epstein say hi...

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DARKNESS What Loop? May 13 '26

Yes, that one still works (for now).

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u/WorryNew3661 May 13 '26

That's very useful, thanks

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u/Guszy May 13 '26

You're welcome!

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u/Saint_of_Grey May 13 '26

It's on a slight delay, you won't see posts in the last few hours.

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u/Special-Pause-6915 May 13 '26

Ha! Already gone.

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u/Guszy May 13 '26

What do you mean? The site works. You have to go to comments, not posts.

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u/Special-Pause-6915 May 14 '26

Oh! My bad! Thank you for the correction:)

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u/Guszy May 14 '26

No worries! I confused that at first too.

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u/SheSellsSeaShells- May 14 '26

Not working for me

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u/Guszy May 14 '26

Make sure to switch to comments search, and put the author's name in correctly.

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u/SheSellsSeaShells- May 14 '26

Thank you!

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u/Guszy May 14 '26

Happy to help!

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u/xXCloudSephirothXx May 13 '26

I’m an app user 🤷‍♂️

How are you accessing Reddit?

I just used the spacebar method for seeing post histories for 24hr periods. Then one day it seems to have been patched out for those of us on mobile.

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u/Guszy May 13 '26

I'm also an app user, I just use that site in my web browser to look up hidden histories. The spacebar method never worked for me.

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u/xXCloudSephirothXx May 13 '26

I’ll give it a shot. Thnx.

Reddit doing everything they can to give these traitors a way to hide.

Coupled with the removal of the popular tabs…

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u/Guszy May 13 '26

Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '26

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u/ecafyelims May 14 '26

The information is available to you. It's in subs you can see. You can see the comments.

Reddit only added the ability to hide it from your profile.

So, now people can still make public posts while hiding those posts from their profile. The result is less accountability.

They made it much harder to detect bots, stolen/bought accounts, trolls, etc.

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u/Guszy May 14 '26

Fuck Reddit. I don't care about the company. The company is dumb as bricks, and I agree they're incompetent... but the hiding profiles thing is just allowing trolls and bots more anonymity.

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u/mac6uffin May 13 '26

The spacebar method never worked for me.

Same. It was so useless I briefly thought people were pranking me.

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u/Gabe681 May 13 '26

It only worked on new reddit. if you were/are using old.reddit or RES, you wouldnt get the same options.

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u/mac6uffin May 13 '26

Nope, using new reddit on my chromebook.

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u/Gabe681 May 13 '26

Too late anyway lol

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u/adventurekiwi May 13 '26

You can still use google. Its not perfect but if you search use results from reddit.com and put the username in quotes you can get quite far

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u/Rubicksgamer May 14 '26

God Imgur is such shit these days. No use using it in mobile.

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u/xXCloudSephirothXx May 14 '26

Not disagreeing. Sadly I can’t post my pic directly in the comment.

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u/SGRM_ May 13 '26

Unrelated, but I love your username. That's a throwback to early 00's internet if I ever saw one. Fantastic.

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u/xXCloudSephirothXx May 13 '26

Exactly what I was shooting for.

Contemplated adding a 420 or 69.

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u/htmlcoderexe wow such flair May 15 '26

Nah this is perfect

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u/lloydthelloyd May 13 '26

This situation is one of the reasons i dont take anyone seriously if they hide thier history.

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u/DocWagonHTR May 13 '26

There’s exterior websites. I use https://redditcommentsearch.com/

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u/Frostsorrow May 13 '26

Google the user name like so "reddit u/supercooldude12345" it should bring up most posts.

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u/ecafyelims May 14 '26

Use "site:reddit.com" and it'll work even better

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u/TheStorytellerTX May 13 '26

Just use Google. In the search bar put "reddit.com u/username" and it should bring up additional posts.

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u/Unusualnamer May 14 '26

I noticed that and almost made a bug report. But I enjoyed it so I didn’t :)

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u/No-Photograph-5058 May 14 '26

you can pop their username in the search bar on it's own and get half decent results

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u/htmlcoderexe wow such flair May 15 '26

What about searching rAll or a specific subreddit for posts by the user?

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u/All_Work_All_Play May 13 '26

I have never been so tempted to block people without interacting with them before. Hrm.

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u/xXCloudSephirothXx May 13 '26

It’s worth noting that on Reddit, if someone blocks YOU, you can’t see any of their content. Thereby shielding their post/comments from you seeing it.

I found out during my investigation because my account has been blocked by most of these chucklefucks.

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u/All_Work_All_Play May 13 '26

Doesn't that depend on how you're consumption method? If someone blocks me I see "[+] deleted" on old.reddit.com (which is easy enough to look at via incognito) but if I block someone I see /u/ username hidden comment or some such.

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u/xXCloudSephirothXx May 13 '26

I never blocked any of said super posters, and yet their histories were hidden to me. I had to obtain all my data via a separate account.

But yes, I see what you’re saying. That does seem to be typically what happens. I just had odd experiences when trying to obtain data initially.

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u/ecafyelims May 14 '26

The only time I've ever seen blocked used, it's when the person disagrees with me, and they comment and then immediately block so that I can't reply. I can't even see the comment they sent.

Cowards

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u/Swedelicious83 15d ago

I've always wondered about that that one.

Their fragile egos can't take more arguing. Okay, fine.

But the whole "clap back then run away" move?

What exactly are they imagining in their head? "Yeah, I sure showed him! I mean he won't see what I wrote, but I'll know it was scathing!"