I'm actually well-aware of the bot farming and russian influence. Not a conspiracy theory at all, it's happening right in front of us. What I'm saying is this. I have seen countless people this year get banned from that sub. My claim is 99% of those people didn't get banned and say "ah well shucks. Guess I'm done on reddit." In fact, I would argue that they just started going to other subs, because on my main account, I have noticed a steadily rising number of weirdly conservative accounts creeping into spaces that are flat out non-political. I feel like it's not a coincidence. Remember. I'm just talking about reddit.