r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 24d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/timshel42 24d ago edited 24d ago

reddit is censoring and shadowbanning far more than most realize.

this will let you see all your comments that have been removed.
reveddit.com

edit- seems to be getting the reddit hug of death. worked for me this morning and now isnt.

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u/ThoseWhoAre 24d ago

Wow, comments I made trashing tesla trucks have been shadow banned, that's insane.

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u/Lurkingguy1 24d ago

I just looked up and no comments came up under your username

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u/ThoseWhoAre 24d ago

I've just tried to look myself up again and didn't get results either, I'll check again and update with a screenshot

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u/Kirikomori 24d ago

Its showing up nothing no matter what name or sub I put in

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u/OkieFoxe 24d ago

you have to add an API key to it. It'll prompt you for one when you type in a username, and there should be a hyperlink to the guide on the pop up box.

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u/Kirikomori 24d ago

No such prompt appears when I type in a username and hit enter

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u/OkieFoxe 24d ago

Here's what the pop up should look like. I'm not sure, I wonder if you had previously used it and had entered an old API key that's no longer active or something. If so, there's a tiny little wrench icon in the top left corner under "about" where you should be able to access the guide and put in/modify the API key.

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u/tahlyn 24d ago

It won't work for me even when I use my API key.

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u/Mylaptopisburningme 24d ago

Sounds like its broke at the moment, it got too popular.

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics 24d ago

If there's a thumbs down in the top right corner then something went wrong. Reveddit is rate limited on the best of days and this popular topic has hugged the service to death.

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u/burlycabin 24d ago

After reddit made the API expensive, reveddit is now rate limited and the service goes down regularly when they run out of API calls. You can use this guide to get your own API ID and make it work.

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u/Amelaclya1 24d ago

It's broken atm. I just tried to look up myself and also have no comments. But I just finished a temp ban from a sub, so I know I should have at least one lol

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u/AlexCoventry 24d ago

That happens if you don't give it a valid Reddit App ID. They have a guide about how to set it up..