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

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    Reddit would refuse to accept (error out) or act like it accepted and then just outright delete my comments

    Oh, this is pretty standard behaviour on the site in general these days. It’s just a broken mess made by an incompetent company. Their front-end regularly silently disconnects from their backend all of the damn time.

    For the most part it’s not censorship, it’s just a badly broken website that doesn’t give a shit about its users’ experience, because it doesn’t see anything else as real competition.

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Oh I think some of it is, especially in light of how fashy they’ve become of late banning people for even just upvoting shit about Luigi Mangione.

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      I would generally agree, except it seemed to crop up more on longer posts in general, and especially on political posts. It even happened using old.reddit, and that’s - as far as I know - an entirely different codebase, though interacting with the same servers, so… shrug

    • lizardtrench@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 days ago

      Erroring out is just being broken, but accepting and then deleting comments is a filter that is shadow banning your comment (so that you can’t tell it’s been removed and try to re-post it by circumventing the filter).