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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/Piltonbadger 24d ago

I've used Reveddit for ages. It's good to see when mods sneakily remove your posts, so others can't see it but to you it looks like nobody responded to your post.

People might be surprised at how many of their posts might have been sneakily removed without their knowledge by mods.

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u/Saneless 24d ago

Yep. I happened to go to a post on a browser I wasn't signed in on, and like a minute after I posted something it said removed

But to me in my account, it was fine

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u/Piltonbadger 24d ago

I use the Reveddit widget and get instant notifications when a post is removed. Happens quite a lot and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

It is a dick move of them to just remove the post from visibility and make the OP think their post is still visible, though.

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u/unpluggedcord 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yeah I got perm banned from r/iOS because apparently im a ban evader? "Reddit admins tagged you as a ban evader, go talk to them"

Hmm. Ive had the same account forever, never opened another account, nobody in my house uses reddit but me, and Ive never been banned by Reddit.

"You can appeal to reddit, go talk to them, You're now banned from talking to mods." Dafuq?

OKay Goto Reddit ban appeals page.

"Your account is in good standing with reddit and is not banned"

Okay mod power trip, got it.

https://imgur.com/a/6jpbFCi

https://i.imgur.com/P21pwAZ.jpeg

Edit: Just reached out to the sub again and the response I got was "Ask admins"

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u/cloudforested 24d ago

Similar thing happened to me recently.

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u/FilthBadgers 24d ago

Same. Perhaps there's one very prolific, upset mod out to make people's reddit experience slightly more naff.

They really were quite needlessly antagonistic about it too. I don't get it

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u/chesterriley 24d ago

Its a systemic issue.