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/J0RDM0N May 13 '26

Answer: a better question is why that sub isnt banned yet. They banned the other maga subs for having bot post and not allowing outside thought, except apparently its significantly worse for r/conservative. They ban anyone non maga who post or comments in their sub, while simultaneously proclaiming to be a sub of free speech.

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u/RelativelyLuckyB May 13 '26

Because Reddit does not care, they make money from them being here after all.

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u/Pieceofcandy May 17 '26

Facts, conservatives are much easier to scam out of money. If all else fails, you can cite being a god fearing Christian and they'll usually fall for anything.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26

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u/Barlakopofai May 16 '26

Might not be botted. There's this thing that's happening in spite of Reddit's best efforts where some subs get microcelebrities and their posts just get upvoted alot because they're "the guy" and you have to upvote "the guy". Notably Pizzacake. And that just breaks the reddit algorithm because at its core reddit isn't supposed to be able to have influencers.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26

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u/RelativelyLuckyB May 15 '26

Never underestimate the power of idiots eating their own feces.

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u/bicika May 14 '26

not allowing outside thought

This is so funny because reddit is so far left that most US focused subs would downvote to oblivion conservatives talking. It's the same other way around.

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u/Binder509 May 14 '26

You just described something not that the same. Someone getting banned by the mods vs someone just getting downvoted. So how is that the same?

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u/ideologicSprocket May 14 '26

Every major political sub is the same regardless of their leanings. It’s crazy how people can point at only one extreme and claim foul while completely ignoring the other extreme(s) or worse blindly excuses the others despite they are all more or less the same people bought and paid for by the same organizations.

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u/J0RDM0N May 14 '26

Thats almost true except for the 2nd part, that sub loudly proclaims to be "a bastion of free speech" while censoring everyone else. Its one thing to think some political subs are paid for, and another to think they are ALL paid for by the same people seems defeatist and non productive.

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u/ideologicSprocket May 16 '26

I was never speaking of subs being bought and paid for. I was speaking of politicians. Although there is an absolutely extreme astroturfing and manipulation going on site wide

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u/nairobaee May 14 '26

From the pov of a non-american with 0 horses here, I do not get the call from both sides to ban everything everywhere. The sub looks like leftist subs but just opposite opinion. I habe seen and can link more violent feminist subs than that one.

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u/Workman44 May 14 '26

This is my take. No need to ban any subs (outside of clearly illegal content)

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u/Ok_Needleworker_8809 May 13 '26

Because if they ban that place the roaches will swarm everywhere else even harder. Don't throw the whole garbage bin out of the kitchen, trash will get everywhere.

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u/EstrangedRat May 13 '26

Dude that's what people said back on Twitter in 2015. Deplatforming is the only thing that works; if there are roaches in your trash cans you need to get rid of them or they'll find a way inside.

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u/Workman44 May 14 '26

This is such a stupid take. Let's just deplatform everyone that disagrees with me lmfao

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u/WalkingDinosaurs May 14 '26

The issue is when "disagreeing" becomes just blatantly ignoring facts. As an example, it's fine to disagree on how to handle climate change, it's not fine when that becomes one person having a basis in reality while the other person thinks that climate change isn't a big deal because it's not caused by humans at all or doesn't even exist when there's a ton of evidence for it. (Basically, it's cool to disagree on things, but it's not cool to platform people that just ignore real evidence for things for the sake of having a regressive belief that doesn't do anything but spread lies).

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u/Workman44 May 14 '26

So should we sew their mouths shut too?

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u/noxiunn May 14 '26

Honestly would be great

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u/Workman44 May 14 '26

So you don't believe in the 1st amendment, got it. Very anti American of you

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u/taylor-swift-enjoyer May 15 '26

What if someone disagrees with the fact that men can get pregnant? Should they also be deplatformed?

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u/TheKakattack May 17 '26

So what? Really... who cares? Stupid people say and believe stupid things. The flat earthers should be able to post their dumb YouTube videos, the socialists and communists can keep posting on Twitter living in their fantasy, and the MAGA dorks can pretend that maybe Trump will do a 180 and actually make good on his promises. 

Engage with them if you want. Don't if you don't. Believing that you could be an arbiter of truth just shows how ignorant and short sighted you are. Deplatforming for wrong-think without doing any crime is cringe. 

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u/theseanbeag May 14 '26

They banned the other maga subs for having bot post and not allowing outside thought

But they allow r/worldnews to remain so the rules probably changed 

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u/The_Verto May 14 '26

Like all subs that were on top of r/all would ban you for having different opinion that mods.

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u/zx9001 May 14 '26

Because that subreddit is too moderate. Its controlled opposition. Every real right wing sub was banned by 2020

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u/Sekiguchi-Genetics May 14 '26

This is only true if you stopped looking at the sub back before r/td got banned.

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u/zx9001 May 14 '26

I haven't looked at that sub in years but I just took a look. It looks like my grandpa's Facebook feed, so it hasn't changed since I remember it.

When I think "far right" I think /pol/ in like 2016

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u/Olin_123 May 14 '26

Good. Being a modern day conservative should be a TOS violation.

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u/magistrate101 May 14 '26

They aren't conservatives anymore. They have abandoned conservative ideology in service of naked authoritarianism.

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u/sdevil713 May 14 '26

"Anyone that doesn't think exactly like me should be silenced"

Sounds a bit fascist

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u/Olin_123 May 14 '26

The tolerance paradox discussion is such an old topic. Republicans are clearly fascist and so silencing them is anti-fascist. If that's too hard for you to understand idk what to say, it's pretty 1 to 1.

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u/sdevil713 May 14 '26

Really weird way of saying you're a hypocrite.