This is a wide spread phenomenon on the platform. Sometimes its just a few comments or even dozens of comments in response to an original comment on a post being grouped together in another button saying (x number of replies) but when you open those replies its either nothing, or significantly less replies than the prompt described. Its mostly all on posts that are political in nature relating to the current fascist takeover in the USA, Luigi Magnione, amazon union busting, anti laborer’s rights legislation, loosening of child labor laws and other topics related to the wider topics regarding disappearing human rights under emboldening fascist authoritarianism. many of us have seen the news articles that mention allegations of reddit censoring comments and giving people violations for liking certain content but nothing is being said about the actual extent of this censorship. But when you can see hundreds of comments being deleted from a post such as this one here, it doesn’t bode well for the future
It’s a frog/boiling water situation. It never gets suddenly, dramatically worse, it just gets slowly worse over time. I had been noticing some weirdness (described in another comment under this post) for a while and was kinda starting to wonder what was up, but it didn’t rise to the level of ‘Oh I should do something like this’ until I got temp-banned for saying Luigi didn’t deserve to go to jail for what he did (which was then reversed on appeal, but not before I got a message saying I was perma-banned for ban-evasion with other accounts (I’ve had only one account in the 14 years I was on reddit, so that was bullshit), but the ban was lifted instead. It was that combination of an increasing sense that something fucky was going on and an inciting event that made me realize it was considerably worse than I realized. People tend to need an inciting event, otherwise the concern doesn’t overcome the inertia to keep doing what you’re familiar with.
i guess my side of the boiling pot got too hot faster than the rest did and my event was the reddit blackout protest; all of the subreddits i frequented when dark and it forced me onto lemmy.
Yeah, I almost left at that time too, but I didn’t believe the alternatives were really up to snuff. I have been pleasantly surprised to be wrong.
i’m thankful for it; my leftists leaning were already unwelcomed on reddit as much as they are on .world and that episode taught me that the alternatives were significantly better; i would still be on reddit if it weren’t for that and it’s so much better having islands of sanity whose members can see the neoliberal wool being pulled over american’s eyes.
Really? I found lots of pretty far-left subs that were pretty friendly to those ideas. Wish I could find more here, honestly, but the ones I’ve seen seem kinda dead.
those subreddits exist and i was part of them (they were the ones who told me about lemmy) and, yes, they’re dead and/or dying because the constant and overwhelming stream of clueless “gotchas” from people unaware of their propagandization is depressing and tiring AF and that made most/all of the leftists redditors leave for islands of sanity, like lemmy.
i’m only partially grateful that reddit’s enshitification pushed people here since they’re perpetuating the same asshattery that’s made reddit and this country turn into shit.
I meant I wish there were more of those communities on lemmy.
those subreddits are well represented as .ml, lemmygrad and hexbear on lemmy.
lemmy itself is a spiritual successor to r/communism, r/socialism, r/anarchy, r/marxism, etc. mixed with r/linux, r/foss, r/technology, etc.
I kinda wondered if lemmy.ml was a left-leaning server, but the description didn’t seem to say anything about it. shrug Didnt’ know about the others tho thanks.